1.   Barring big upheavals or surprises, all Gore has to do now is show up at debates and shake hands on the campaign trail.

2.   After all, he still sits in the White House, rides in the presidential limousine, shakes hands with Boris Yeltsin.

3.   I have seen Adlai Stevenson, would-be president of the United States, shake hands with a department-store dummy in Florida.

4.   Look people in the eye, shake hands firmly, flash a winning smile and remember names.

5.   Peres, right, shakes hands with Moshe Katsav, a legislator from the opposition Likud party, after Katsav won the presidency.

6.   Speaker Newt Gingrich took the unusual step of walking across the Capitol to slap backs and shake hands on the Senate floor as the bill went over the top.

7.   When Leon directs members of the congregation to greet one another, Bush shakes hands all around, including that of FBI Director Robert Mueller, a church regular.

8.   Huge screens showed him walk straight towards Balladur, shake hands for barely a split second, before moving onto the next in line.