21.   After leaving office, he became the state chairman of the March of Dimes for two years.

22.   Also Thursday, Gore met with state party chairmen and attended a Democratic National Committee fund-raiser.

23.   Bush also trotted out his California state chairman, Gerry Parsky, to deny former first lady Nancy Reagan was planning to endorse McCain.

24.   Bush said he would rely on the advice of his newly appointed state chairman in Louisiana, GOP Gov. Mike Foster.

25.   Branscum had been the state Democratic chairman and was a fund-raiser for Clinton and other candidates.

26.   But almost immediately after his election, the new state chairman was greeted with a once-in-a-decade meeting of the Legislature.

27.   But David Leland, the state Democratic chairman, said it was no accident Gore has ventured to the state at least nine times since the campaign began.

28.   But Foreman, the state Republican Party chairman, said he expects Clinton to quit over the scandal.

29.   But Mark R. Warner, a former Democratic state chairman, is having a try at it.

30.   But Joseph Keefe, the former state Democratic chairman, embodies one potential problem.