Vice President Al Gore said Thursday that he was not counting on President Bill Clinton to help him win the White House because "he's got a full time job."
"People are more interested in what we're gonna do in the future," Gore said in an interview in ABC television. "I am who I am ... I'm campaigning as my own person."
He said no public appearances with the president were planned in the next two weeks.
Asked to comment on the closeness of the race in which he and rival George W. Bush are neck-and-neck less than two weeks from the vote, he said: "It gets me fired up."
He defended the pact he signed in 1995 with then-Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on ending arms sales to Iran, saying: "The understanding we reached with them stopped any new arms sales for the last five years."
Under the pact, "They were allowed to finish those old contracts which did included advanced weaponry contracts."
"Congress was briefed on it," he said.
The New York Times on October 13 reported that Russia violated the accord by continuing to deliver arms to Iran past a deadline, and said the pact was not disclosed to the US Congress or the public -- WASHINGTON (AFP)
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