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Revision as of 14:55, 16 June 2002 by Ortolan88 (talk | contribs) (*bit on internet , this is a weak entry, i'm no gore enthusiast, but someone could do better than this)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Vice President of the United States 1993-2001 during Bill Clinton's presidency.
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. is the son of veteran Democratic Senator Albert Gore, Sr. of Tennessee. Gore, Sr. grew up in rural Tennessee, but his son was raised in a hotel in Washington, D.C. and spent summers in Carthage Tennessee.
Gore, Jr. could have used his father's connections to avoid serving in Vietnam. He did avoid combat, which resulted in allegations that his famous father's influence had kept him away from the front lines. He worked in Vietnam as a Army war reporter and was not always out of danger, however.
He was a Senator from Tennessee before he became Vice President.
He wrote an environmental conservation book called Earth in the Balance.
He ran for the office of President of the United States and was defeated by George W. Bush in 2000. See also:
He never claimed to have invented the Internet. The exact quote from a CNN interview: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
This statement referred to his introduction around 1990 of a bill designed to fund the creation of an "information systems highway" for education. The bill itself, and the phrase "information superhighway" in particular, were definite factors in advancing the growth of the Internet. Gore, however, never managed during the long campaign to make this point clear, even when directly teased by George W. Bush during the their debates.
Other criticisms
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Gore was attacked by ] for owning (indirectly through his father's estate) several thousand shares of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Occidental Petroleum angered environmentalists by trying to open a new oil/gas drilling field in Colombia.
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