During the Clinton administration, Al Gore served as Vice President

During the Clinton administration, Al Gore served as Vice President. On January 20, 1993, Clinton and Gore were inaugurated. They created a two-page agreement outlining their relationship at the start of the first term. Gore was initially hesitant to accept Bill Clinton's offer to be his running mate in the 1992 United States presidential election, but after sparring with the George H. W. Bush administration over global warming issues, he decided to accept. Clinton indicated that he chose Gore because of his foreign policy experience, environmental activities, and dedication to his family.

Clinton agreed to regular lunch meetings, acknowledged Gore as the main adviser on nominations, and put some of Gore's top advisers in critical White House positions. Clinton gave Gore unprecedented access to decision-making as a vice president. Gore became the president's indisputable chief counsel through their weekly meals and daily chats.

Gore was especially concerned with decreasing waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, and he argued for reducing the size of the bureaucracy and the number of regulations. According to David Greenberg (professor of history and media studies at Rutgers University), the US economy expanded under the Clinton administration, and the numbers were uniformly impressive by the end of the Clinton presidency. Aside from record-high surpluses and record-low poverty rates, the economy may have the longest economic expansion in history, the lowest unemployment since the early 1970s, and the lowest poverty rates for single moms, black Americans, and the elderly.