As a matter of fact, on Sunday night, on ElectionDay, when both of them declared themselves the winners, they both reached out and said that they were going to try to conciliate and bring unity to the nation.
"I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest from which we just passed, " Gore said Wednesday of his discussion with Bush, and the 35-day legal ordeal that followed ElectionNight.