Caught by surprise, Bush made a flurry of sarcastic remarks. Bichsel was ejected from the audience, at a university run by fellow Jesuits. A day later, the priest was a network morning talk-show guest.

As Gore drove up to a party on Capitol Hill, he experienced an only-in-Seattle moment. A coven of feminist demonstrators on Broadway chanted: "Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Patrimony has got to go."

Sit-ins blocked streets. Windows were broken. More than 40,000 peaceful protesters marched down Fourth Avenue. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sat in the coffee shop at a locked-down Westin Hotel watching the battle on TV.

Ever since, local civic boosters have been forced to live with the nickname given to raucous anti-WTO demonstrators: "Seattle people."

As the first lady's car exited the garage, an angry male yell was audible to the passengers inside: "Kill the bitch!"

In 2003, newly appointed Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski went across the street from the College Club and engaged in a long discussion with environmentalist protesters.

Other members of Alaska's congressional delegation turn beet-faced at any hint of dissent. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, responded to critical questions at a Fairbanks high school by using an obscene expression that describes a gay sex act.

Gorton marched through placard-carrying seniors at a 1986 Auburn event, leaving his guest -- Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa. -- to talk with them. He did likewise when KING/5 and the Seattle P-I showed up at a posh political action committee fundraiser at the Wolf Trap Performing Arts Park near Washington, D.C. Sen. Al Simpson, R-Wyo., was left to say: "Slade Gorton is as independent as a hog on ice."

In 2000, P-I photographer Paul Joseph Brown clicked a damaging photo of Gorton ducking down the back stairs just as seniors were on the way up to his office in Bellevue.

Carefully, a Coast Guard cutter carrying the president made a path through the boats so Ford could have his rally.

White House reporters joked about what would have happened had the accident-prone Ford tried to steer.

Kept at the edges of the Seattle Center, protesters found a way to amplify their message.

A musical group called the Ad Hoc Anti-Fascist Marching Band played the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme and "Three Blind Mice" over and over.

"We've come to arrest you, not to talk to you!" the protest's leader bellowed into a bullhorn. "Knock it off!" Humphrey retorted. "Now you've had your equal time, now shut up!"

Shaken, Humphrey flew to Salt Lake City and decided to deliver a TV speech promising to scale back the war. It began a comeback that almost carried him to the White House.

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