The president fully appreciates the support the vice president has shown him over time, and thinks its understandable that he will have differing points of view from time to time as he runs for president on his own.

They are a swing vote. We are making a pitch. The president and vice president have an outstanding record of helping Hispanic families build better lives for themselves.

I worked enough on the Dukakis campaign not to put this on.

There is no erosion of that support, ... There is extraordinary belief that the vice president and Senator Lieberman have conducted themselves in a way that makes us very proud.

[On Sunday, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney appeared to support the Mitchell report's recommendation of a cease-fire.] We need to find some way to try and cap that violence and get some kind of process started, ... It is conceivable that when the Mitchell Plan is released this week that that may provide some basis on which to proceed.

He was always hanging around for moral support and he was still savvy on the sport. But he really didn't get back on the mat until his junior year. To miss an entire season and come back strong like that tells you a lot about him.