After catching some flak for misstatements during last week's first-of-three presidential debates, Democratic candidate Al Gore said Tuesday he would do his best to "get all the details right" in his second televised encounter with Republican George W. Bush.

In an interview with CNN's Jonathan Karl, the vice president also said he would control his sighing, which drew considerable commentary after the first debate. Gore sighed frequently and loudly, as if exasperated, while the Texas governor spoke during their debate on the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts.

"Less sighing in this debate," Gore said.
. . . In the course of last week's contest between the two major party candidates, Gore said he accompanied the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on a tour of areas affected by wildfires in Texas in 1998. In fact, Gore attended a Houston meeting with a regional FEMA director about the wildfires, but never accompanied Witt on a tour of the area.

"It was not a willful mistake, but it was a mistake," Gore said of his original statement, adding that he has gone on many similar tours with Witt.

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