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  Apple - Press Info - Bios - Albert Gore Jr.
Gore was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993.
Gore is a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University.
Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948, the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr.
www.apple.com /pr/bios/gore.html   (367 words)

  
 Albert Gore, Jr. Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Albert Gore, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1948.
Gore was inaugurated as the 45th vice president on January 20, 1993.
Gore held a press conference on March 3, 1997, to defend his actions, saying there was nothing illegal about what he had done, although he admitted it may not have been a wise choice.
www.bookrags.com /biography/albert-gore-jr   (1603 words)

  
 Albert Gore's Biography, politician and the 45th vice president of USA
Gore was born in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1948.
Gore graduated from Harvard University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in government.
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976.
www.infonotas.com /biography/albertgore/index.htm   (302 words)

  
 Gore
Albert Gore Sr., who had never lost his roots in the yeoman hill country of Middle Tennessee, and who had tried to make sure his son didn't either, was not amused.
Albert, Sr.'s, parents, Allen and Maggie Denny Gore, grew tobacco, feed, and vegetables, and raised cattle, hogs, and chickens on modest acreage near the town of Possum Hollow.
In many ways Albert Gore, Sr., loved the farm and rural life, yet both he and his dad always assumed that he would be the one to break the hold of the land over successive generations of Gores.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/z/zelnick-gore.html   (3325 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Albert A. Gore, Jr., 45th Vice President (1993-2001)
Gore continued the comparison: "I'm told that Hope, Arkansas, is a lot like my hometown of Carthage, Tennessee: It's a place where people know about it when you're born and care about it when you die." Yet Gore had been born in Washington, D.C., and only sporadically lived in Carthage.
Gore settled in Carthage, a small town forty miles northeast of Nashville, and was elected as the county's superintendent of education while still a law student.
Gore also displayed a curious habit of exaggerating his accomplishments–such as his assertion that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet"–which his opponents exploited for their own purposes." He never seemed to be telling the truth," observed the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, "even when he may have been."
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Albert_Gore.htm   (7209 words)

  
 Tipper Gore -- Gore-LIEberman 2000 unofficial campaign web site
In 1985, Tipper Gore made a name for herself as a crusader against "porn rock." She was a founding member of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), a group which emerged overnight on the national media scene.
In an October 1987 meeting between the Gores and entertainment luminaries, she claimed the Senate rock hearings were a "mistake." Albert Gore Jr.
Gore echoed his wife’s feeling that the hearing ‘was not a good idea,’ and attempted to exculpate himself from the proceedings by virtue of the fact that he was ‘a freshman minority member of the committee’ in no position to veto the affair.
crm114.com /algore/tipper.html   (2806 words)

  
 Dossier - Albert Gore, Jr.
During the campaign, Gore had to respond to numerous allegations that he "padded" his resume by implying in campaign materials that he served in combat in Vietnam when in fact he had been a reporter for the Army's 20th Engineer Brigade.
Albert Gore equating the dangers to the environment to the dangers of nuclear war...
Albert Gore shifting the blame for drug use to consumerism and disconnection to the environment -- possibly to avoid responsibility for his own experimentation with marijuana before being elected to Congress...
www.nationalcenter.org /dos7112.htm   (1096 words)

  
 CTJ Presidential Election Tax Policy Scorecard: Albert Gore
Albert Gore was first elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee in 1978, and was reelected in 1980 and 1982.
But Gore outlined several elements of the bill with which he was "disappointed." In particular, Gore expressed his opposition to "elimination of deductibility of state sales taxes,.
Gore did not vote on the conference committee version of HR 3545, which the Senate enacted by a vote of 61 to 28.
www.ctj.org /html/gore.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Albert Gore, Jr.
Albert Gore, Jr., is currently the Vice President of the United States as well as an avid environmentalist.
Gore was born in Washington, D.C. in 1948.
Gore believes that such measures should be combined with positive attitudes towards the environment as a whole and acceptance by individuals of responsibility for actions to restore the earth's balance.
library.thinkquest.org /26026/People/albert_gore__jr_.html   (710 words)

  
 Sen. Albert Gore Sr. remembered as an 'inspiration' - December 9, 1998
The vice president led a memorial service for former U.S. Sen. Albert Gore Sr., who died on Saturday at age 90 of natural causes at his farm in Carthage, which is 40 miles east of Nashville.
The elder Gore served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and then three in the Senate, when he was a leader among liberals.
There was the time the elder Gore was giving a tour of his farm to a New York magazine writer when he spotted a cow stuck in the mud of a creek bed, stripped naked and spent 30 minutes freeing it.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/09/gore.funeral/index.html   (611 words)

  
 Albert Gore, Sr., and His Papers: The Senate Collection
Albert Gore authored the first Medicare bill, and led in the passage of progressive tax reforms, undone as he says, by President Reagan.
A highly successful Senator, Albert Gore would be the first to admit that he had hoped to be nominated for vice-president in 1956, and had presidential aspirations for the 1960 election.
Gore was a self-styled southern moderate, not a radical or liberal; however, as Gore admits, "this hot and rancid political stuff was an open invitation to extremism, which made moderation a hazardous political course."
spider.georgetowncollege.edu /htallant/border/bs10/mitchell.htm   (1644 words)

  
 Gore Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Albert Gore was born in Jackson County, Tennessee on December 26, 1907.
Upon the death of the Superintendent in 1932, Gore was appointed to complete the term.
Albert Gore ran a successful campaign and began, in 1939, 32 years representing Tennessee in Congress.
janus.mtsu.edu /gore/gore_bio.htm   (379 words)

  
 Al Gore Quotes - stupid quotes and lies by Al Gore (Algore)
Gore phrases the initial statement to give the impression that he was somehow responsible or "part of something" from the outset, but leaves wiggle room so that he can later justify the statement.
Gore's mother-in-law does pay more for her medication, but the generic brand of the drug, which 85% of Americans now use as a cheaper alternative, costs half as much, or one and a half times what it costs for the pooch - not three times.
Gore and his wife, Tipper, were the driving forces behind the campaign to make record companies put stickers on records that contained lyrics with sexually explicit content.
www.gargaro.com /algore.html   (4111 words)

  
 "An American heresy" - Salon
Former Vice President Al Gore says the GOP push to dismantle the filibuster is part of a larger movement to undermine the founding principles of the United States.
Four years and four months ago, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a bitterly divided 5 to 4 decision, issued an unsigned opinion that the majority cautioned should never be used as a precedent for any subsequent case anywhere in the federal court system.
Gore had not only all been nominated to the Court by a Republican president, but had also been confirmed by only Republican Senators in party-line votes, America would not have accepted that court's decision.
www.salon.com /opinion/feature/2005/04/27/al_gore/index.html   (1012 words)

  
 CNN - Albert Gore Sr., father of vice president, dies at 90 - December 5, 1998
The vice president and his wife, Tipper Gore, were at his bedside in Carthage when he died, according to a statement issued by Gore's Washington office.
When Gore was first elected to the Senate in 1952, he had already served 14 years in the U.S. House, taking time out for Army service during World War II.
Gore and his wife also had a daughter, Nancy, who died of lung cancer at age 45 in 1984.
www.cnn.com /US/9812/05/gore.senior.obit/index.html   (487 words)

  
 frontline: the choice 2000: al gore: gore chronology
Albert Arnold Gore is born at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington DC.
Al Gore enlists in the U.S. Army in Newark, New Jersey, hoping not to be recognized as a Senator's son.
Al Gore is sent to Vietnam as an army journalist, assigned to the 20th Engineer Brigade headquartered at Bien Hoa, an airbase twenty miles northeast of Saigon.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2000/gore/cron.html   (1650 words)

  
 Al Gore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gore was the Democratic nominee for President in the 2000 election.
Gore voted 7 to 2 to declare the ongoing recount procedure unconstitutional because it feared that different standards would be used in different parts of the state, and 5 to 4 to ban recounts using other procedures.
Gore's endorsement of Dean was helpful to the latter in legitimizing him in the eyes of the establishment faction of the Democratic Party, but it also led the media to dub Dean as the clear front-runner, with the result that his opponents devoted more of their emphasis to opposing him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Gore   (6765 words)

  
 Editorial: Will the real Albert Gore, Jr. please stand up
When I think of Albert Gore, many descriptive terms come to mind; liar, dirty, Washington insider, schemer, spineless, and even socialist jump right out at me. The word that never comes to my mind is President, and I hope the same goes for you.
Also, tell me how concerned Gore could really be about the environment if he actually flooded a small valley just for a good photo-opportunity of him floating down a river in a canoe.
Gore’s biggest decisions consist of picking which Al Gore he will be that day.
www.northern.edu /exponent/archive/2000/0913/0913-spelly_gore.htm   (723 words)

  
 Al Gore 2008 - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Without specifically naming the Bush administration, Gore lamented at a gathering of Earth and space scientists that policymakers used to take science into account in their decision-making, but not anymore.
This Saturday Gore is hosting a network of 1,600 house parties across the country to watch and discuss his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," with the Democrat planning to address the gatherings by satellite hookup.
Gore to speak at Sioux Falls IA Jan. 23rd
www.algore-08.com   (581 words)

  
 Was Albert Gore Sr. a Crook? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Gore bought at reduced costs or copied the fashions of the day rather than going to the large department stores and paying the high prices.
Yet, you did not see the elder Gore even try to influence his son when he was in Congress or the Senate on environmental issues despite their differences.
The Gore archive is overflowing with letters from people asking for everything from donations for their school to jobs for themselves or family members.
www.slate.com /id/78634/device/html30/workarea/3   (3841 words)

  
 The Our Founder Albert Gore Information Page
The Gore campaign was one of the last to have a web site, despite the fact that Al is so big on the net and technology.
Gore supporters will argue that he came up with it first, but the fact is that it is now a cornerstone of Bush's compassionate conservatism and Gore looks like he's mimicking.
Gore is similar to the others in his procreative activities.
www.ourfounder.com /haque/gore.htm   (902 words)

  
 Albert Gore, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gore was one of only three Democratic senators from the 11 former Confederate states who did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto opposing integration, the other two being Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (who was not asked to sign) and Gore's fellow Tennesseean Estes Kefauver, who refused to sign.
Strom Thurmond tried to get Gore to sign the Southern Manifesto, but was told "Hell no." by Gore.
"Sons", by Nicholas Lemann: article on Albert A. Gore Jr.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Gore,_Sr.   (742 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick: Books: Albert, Jr. Gore,Kyle Longley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"Non-cussin’, non-smokin,’ non-drinkin’" Albert Gore, Sr., the father of former vice president Al Gore, Jr., earned a reputation as a lawmaker who marched to the beat of a different drummer during his 32 years on Capitol Hill.
In the end, after challenging presidents from FDR to JFK, Gore’s battles with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon over his opposition to Vietnam cost the iconoclast his Senate seat in 1970.
The relationship between Gore and his son looms large over the book’s final chapters.
www.amazon.ca /Senator-Albert-Gore-Sr-Tennessee/dp/0807129801   (445 words)

  
 Albert Gore, Jr. - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"The speech, at New York University, was the highest-profile appearance by Gore since he endorsed former Vermont governor Howard Dean for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Yesterday, Gore included an endorsement of Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the presumptive nominee," Allen writes.
Karin Miller, "Gore calls Bush a divider, says he uses fear as a political tool," commercialappeal.com, November 26, 2003.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Al_Gore   (533 words)

  
 Welcome to Al-Gore-2004.org
President Gore tells it like it is in "The Selling Of An Energy Policy", his Earth Day op-ed published in the New York Times.
President Gore took the Florida State Democratic Party conference by storm, blasting Team Smirk's disastrous record on the economy and the environment.
President Gore's speech to this year's Florida State Democratic conference is expected to be his "most partisan" since the 2000 campaign.
www.al-gore-2004.org   (882 words)

  
 George W Bush vs Albert Gore Jr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
If the Gore lawyers can persuade either of the two traditionally pivotal judges to join the four liberals who opposed Saturday's halting of the Florida recount then the counts will begin again, perhaps as early as this evening, and Mr Gore will still be in with a chance of snatching the White House.
Both sides were scheduled to file their written arguments, limited to 50 pages each, by 4pm yesterday in advance of today's 90 minutes of argument in the case which could, in effect, decide the outcome of the November 7 election.
After the dramas of Friday, when the Florida supreme court reignited Mr Gore's hopes by ordering a count of 40,000 or more disputed ballots, and Saturday, when the US supreme court intervened 5-4 to stop the count in its tracks, yesterday was an eerily quiet day in America's constitutional drama.
www.commondreams.org /headlines/121100-02.htm   (592 words)

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