President Clinton, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Al Gore attended a memorial service Monday at Washington’s Temple Sinai for lobbyist and fund raiser Dan Dutko. Co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee’s top fund-raising body, Dutko died July 25 in a mountain bike accident. Quoting from the Talmud, Gore remembered Dutko, 54, as a man whose “Yes meant yes. His no meant no.”
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