In 1965, Gore enrolled at Harvard College, the only university that he applied to. His roommates (in Dunster House) were actor Tommy Lee Jones and Bart Day, the father of former Columbia University women's basketball star Katie Day. He scored in the lower fifth of the class for two years in a row ^* and, after finding himself bored with his classes in his declared English major, Gore switched majors and worked hard in his government courses and graduated from Harvard in June 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government. After returning from the military he took religious studies courses at Vanderbilt and then entered the university's law school. He left Vanderbilt without a degree when he left to run for a open seat in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District in 1976.

Family

The Gores now reside in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and own a small farm near Carthage, Tennessee. The family attends New Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Carthage. The Gores in late 2005 bought a condo at San Francisco's St. Regis.Al Gore's Move to San Francisco Generates Real Estate Buzz Newswire

Soldier and journalist

Although opposed to the Vietnam War, on August 7, 1969, Gore voluntarily enlisted in the army in order to participate in the Vietnam War. After basic training at Fort Dix, Gore was assigned as a military journalist writing for base newspaper, The Army Flier, at Fort Rucker. With seven months remaining in his enlistment, he was shipped to Vietnam, arriving January 2, 1971. He served for four months with the 20th Engineer Brigade in Bien Hoa and for an another month at the Army Engineer Command in Long Binh. As his unit was standing down, he applied for and received discharge two months early as non-essential personnel in order to attend Divinity School and Vanderbilt University.^* The chronology of Gore's military service is as follows:

• August 1969: Enlisted at the Newark, New Jersey recruiting office.
• August to October 1969: 8 weeks of basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
• Late October 1969 to December 1970: Fort Rucker, Alabama, writer for the Army Flier newspaper.
• January 2, 1971 to May 22, 1971: field reporter in Vietnam, part of the 20th Engineer Brigade, stationed primarily at Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon.
• May 24, 1971: Given an honorable discharge, after his early discharge request was granted.

Gore stated many times that he opposed the Vietnam War, but chose to volunteer anyway though he could have avoided serving in Vietnam in a number of ways. Gore has stated that his sense of civic duty compelled him to serve.^*

Gore stated in 1988 that his experience in Vietnam:

didn't change my conclusions about the war being a terrible mistake, but it struck me that opponents to the war, including myself, really did not take into account the fact that there were an awful lot of South Vietnamese who desperately wanted to hang on to what they called freedom. Coming face to face with those sentiments expressed by people who did the laundry and ran the restaurants and worked in the fields was something I was naively unprepared for.

After returning from Vietnam, Gore spent five years as a reporter for the Tennessean, a newspaper headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. During this time, Gore also attended Vanderbilt Divinity School and Law School, although he did not complete a degree at either.

Congressional service

While in Congress, Gore was a member of the following committees: Armed Services (Defense Industry and Technology Projection Forces and Regional Defense; Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence); Commerce, Science and Transportation (Communications; Consumer; Science, Technology and Space- chairman 1992; Surface Transportation; National Ocean Policy Study); Joint Committee on Printing; Joint Economic Committee; Rules and Administration.

1988 Presidential run

In 1988, Gore ran for President but failed to obtain the Democratic nomination, which went instead to Michael Dukakis. During the campaign, Gore's strategy involved skipping the Iowa caucus in order to concentrate his efforts on the South. He won five states in the Super Tuesday primaries (Arkansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee), but dropped out of the presidential race in April 1988 after a poor showing in the New York primary.Gore Chronology up to 2000 Frontline PBS.org

Son's accident and effect on 1992 presidential campaign

Vice Presidency

During his time as Vice President, Al Gore was mostly a behind the scenes player. However, many experts consider him to be one of the most active and influential Vice Presidents in U.S. history. This was evident as Gore had weekly lunches with Clinton to keep each other abreast of current developments.

Debate with Perot

Initiatives

The Internet

Environment

The opinions he developed on issues such as global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer, and the destruction of rain forests are said to have played a major role in policy making for the Clinton administration. In the late nineties, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the Kyoto Treaty, which called for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.http://web.archive.org/web/20001207090900/www.algore.com/speeches/speeches_kyoto_120897.htmlhttp://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/environment.html However, many of these proposals were not enacted by Congress, and/or were not implemented to the satisfaction of critics such as Ralph Nader.http://debatethis.org/gore/enviro/naderopenletter.html#globalwarming In 1998, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia wrote Resolution S. 98 that opposed ratification of the Kyoto treaty, and in turn the Senate voted 95 to 0 against the treaty.

Foreign policy

Claims of Other Achievements

During his 2000 campaign for the presidency, Gore himself attributed positive economic results to his and Clinton's policieshttp://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/initiatives/economy.html -- more than 22 million new jobs, the highest homeownership in American history, the lowest unemployment in 30 years, the paying off of $360 billion of the national debt, the lowest poverty rate in 20 years, higher incomes at all levels, the conversion of the largest budget deficit, up to that time, in American history into the largest surplus, the lowest government spending in three decades, the lowest federal income tax burden in 35 years, and more families owning stocks than ever before. However Gore later placed a large share of the blame for his election loss on the economic downturn and NASDAQ crash of March 2000 in an interview with National Public Radio's Bob Edwards.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=848572

2000 presidential election

After two terms as Vice President, Gore ran for President. In the Democratic primaries, Gore faced an early challenge from Bill Bradley. Gore's nomination was never really in doubt and Bradley withdrew from the race in early March 2000 after failing to win any state primary or caucus.

In August 2000, Gore surprised many when he selected Senator Joe Lieberman to be his vice-presidential running mate. Lieberman, who is a more conservative Democrat than Gore, had publicly blasted President Clinton for the Monica Lewinsky affair. Many pundits saw Gore's choice of Lieberman as another way of trying to distance himself from the scandal-prone Clinton White House. Lieberman was also the first Jewish nominee on a major party's national ticket.

During the entire campaign, Gore was neck-and-neck in the polls with Republican Governor of Texas George W. Bush. On Election Day, the results were so close that the outcome of the race took over a month to resolve, highlighted by the premature declaration of a winner on election night, and an extremely close result in the state of Florida. On election night, news networks first called Florida for Gore, then retracted this, called Florida for Bush and finally retracted that prediction.

Gore strongly disagreed with the Court's decision, but decided "for the sake of our unity of the people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession." Following the election, a subsequent recount conducted by various U.S. news media organizations indicated that Bush would have won using the partial recount method of four strongly Democratic areas advocated by Gore, but that Gore would have won given a full recount of the state if overvotes (i.e. optical ballots where the oval next to a candidate was blacked in and the candidate's name was mistakenly written in the space on the ballot headed "Write in Candidate's Name," which were rejected by optical scoring machines but unmistakably assignable by a human scorer) were counted, regardless of whether the undervotes (mainly the infamous punch ballots where "chads" were not completely punched out) were subjected to rigorous (only fully punched out) or loose (any dimple or mark) standards, or a standard in between (i.e. at least one corner detached, at least two corners detached), and/or disputed absentee ballots (including those which were unsigned, undated, dated too late, etc.) were counted.http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/111201a.htmlMiami Herald, December 3, 2000LA Times, November 12, 2001

The states that ultimately voted for Gore over Bush in the 2000 elections were New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, and Hawaii giving Gore 267 electoral votes to Bush's 271. During the formal Electoral College vote in DC, one of Gore's electors cast a blank ballot to protest what she called DC's "colonial status," thus Gore's final number of electoral votes was 266.

The Florida election has been closely scrutinized since the election. Critics have argued that the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush (brother of George W. Bush) and the Secretary of State of Florida, Katherine Harris, did play a part in ensuring that the state was in the red column of the Republicans come election day. Some irregularities are thought to have favored Bush, and some may have given Gore an edge. Irregularities favoring Bush included the notorious Palm Beach "butterfly ballots," which were alleged to have produced a large number of mistaken votes for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan intended for Gore, and a purge of some 50,000 alleged felons from the Florida voting rolls that included some voters who were again eligible to vote under Florida law. Furthermore, most major news networks prematurely projected Gore as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes at 7:52 p.m. Eastern Time. This happened before the polls closed in ten Florida counties in the heavily Republican western panhandle which are in the Central Time Zone, and thus closed at 7 p.m. Central Time (8 p.m. Eastern). This may have depressed the pro-Bush vote as panhandle residents waiting to, or going to, cast their ballots did not do so because they thought their votes were meaningless in the aftermath of the calling of Florida for Gore, although the degree to which this influenced Bush's vote totals are unknown and debatable.http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/02/cnn.report/cnn.pdf During the numerous recounts (which made the phrase "hanging chads" infamous in the American vocabulary), there were also allegations of both pro-Bush and pro-Gore tampering by low-level operatives in the controversial counties.http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/11/26/230955.shtml It is unclear what effect, if any, this may have had. And the Gore camp fought (with some success) to keep overseas absentee votes out in counties thought to be pro-Bush. Gore contended that the votes were cast after Election Day, and since many of the envelopes did not have cancelled stamps, it was not clear when the votes were cast. Many of the votes were cast by military personnel, and some could have been delayed due to emergency duty shifts by those overseas who chose to submit their ballots at the last hour.

As a matter of law, the issue was settled when the U.S. Congress accepted Florida's electoral delegation, only after a challenge to the Florida electors was presented in the congressional chambers on January 6, 2001 by members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Member after member went up decrying the lack of a senator who would be willing to co-sponsor the challenge without any effect. They thus failed to bring the challenge to a debate.

Concern about the possible disenfranchisement of voters in the Florida vote led to widespread calls for electoral reform in the United States, and ultimately to the passage of the Help America Vote Act, which authorized the United States federal government to provide funds to the states to replace their mechanical voting equipment with electronic voting equipment. However, this has led to new controversies, because of the security weaknesses of the computer systems, the lack of paper-based methods of secure verification, and the necessity to rely on the trustworthiness of the manufacturers whose employees also count those votes.

Joe Lieberman later criticized Al Gore for adopting a populist theme during their 2000 campaign. Lieberman said he objected to Gore's "people vs. the powerful" message, believing it was not the best strategy for Democrats to use to retain the White House.http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28519

The popular political blog The Daily Howler contends that Gore lost the election due to a relentless media "war," in which his positions were misconstrued and his personal idiosyncrasies exaggerated or even invented altogether by members of the mainstream press corps. Singled out by The Daily Howler for particularly misleading accounts of Gore and his candidacy are Ceci Connolly of the Washington Post, Katherine "Kit" Seelye of the New York Times and television talk-show host Chris Matthews.^*

Before the 2000 election, The Simpsons had an episode in which Al Gore is seen measuring the curtains in President Clinton's office.

While running for president in 2000, Al Gore was used as a voice actor for the television show Futurama (for which his daughter, Kristin, was a writer). He played himself again in another episode after the campaign was over.

Private citizen

Education

Criticism of Bush Administration

Gore also spoke against rushing to war with Iraq, advising caution and saying that Iraq was a diversion from fighting Al-Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere: "I don't think that we should allow anything to diminish our focus on avenging the 3,000 Americans who were murdered and dismantling the network of terrorists who we know to be responsible for it. The fact that we don't know where they are should not cause us to focus instead on some other enemy whose location may be easier to identify."

Following the November 5, 2002, midterm elections Gore re-emerged into the public eye with a 14-city book tour and a well-orchestrated "full Gore" media blitz which included a pair of policy speeches. On September 23, Gore delivered a speech on the impending War with Iraq and the War on Terrorism that generated a fair amount of commentary. Less than two weeks later, on October 2, he made a speech on Bush's handling of the economy to the Brookings Institution. Also, during this time period Gore guest starred on several programs such as The Late Show with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live (with rock band Phish), appearing much more relaxed and funnier as a private citizen than he did while holding public office.

On the political front, Gore kept his promise of staying involved in public debate when he offered his criticism and advice to the Bush Administration on key topics such as the Occupation of Iraq, USA Patriot Act, and environmental issues, most notably global warming. Gore also continued to visit campuses across the nation lecturing on issues such as race, media, and democracy.

On April 10, 2004, Gore met with the 9-11 Commission in private to give his testimony on what his administration did to prevent terror attacks. In a statement after the three-hour session, the commission said he was candid and forthcoming, and it thanked him for his "continued cooperation."

In the summer of 2004, Gore teamed up with MoveOn.org, to promote the new science fiction film, The Day After Tomorrow. Although Gore said the movie was a far-fetched example of global warming, he said the movie would escalate public debate on the issue.

On April 27, 2005, Gore gave an hour-long speech lambasting the GOP's effort to do away with the legislative filibuster. In response to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who for weeks had repeated threats to impose the "nuclear option" if Senate Democrats did not stop blocking judicial nominees via the filibuster, Gore said, "Their grand design is an all-powerful executive using a weakened legislature to fashion a compliant judiciary in its own image. The Senate has confirmed 205 or over 95% of President Bush's nominees. Democrats have held up only 10 nominees, less than 5%. Compare that with the 60 Clinton nominees who were blocked by Republican obstruction between 1995 and 2000. What is involved here is a power grab." Gore also took aim at what he called "religious zealots" who claim special knowledge of God's will in American politics. He went on to say, "They even claim that those of us who disagree with their point of view are waging war against people of faith. How dare they!" This was Gore's first major policy speech of 2005 and also the first one since the defeat of Democratic hopeful John Kerry in late 2004.

Civil Rights

On February 12, 2006, Gore contended the US government had committed ‘terrible abuses’ against Arabs living in America after the 9/11 attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/12/220618.shtml

"The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake,” Gore stated at the Jeddah Economic Forum. “The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States.”http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/12/220618.shtml He told the Saudi audience, many of them educated in US universities, that Arabs in the United States had been “indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable.”http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/12/220618.shtml “Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it’s wrong. I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country.”http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/12/220618.shtml

Hurricane Katrina

Future plans

Environment

In the past few years, Gore has remained busy traveling the world speaking and participating in events mainly aimed towards global warming awareness and prevention. His Keynote presentation on global warming has received standing ovations, and he has presented it at least 1000 times.

Book and movie

Investment firm

Gore's group, Generation Investment Management, was created to assist the growing demand for an investment style which can bring returns by blending traditional equity research with a focus on more intangible non-financial factors such as social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance.

Television network

On May 4, 2004, INdTV Holdings, a company co-founded by Gore and Joel Hyatt, purchased cable news channel NewsWorld International from Vivendi Universal. The new network will not have political leanings, Gore said, but will serve as an "independent voice" for a target audience of people between 18 and 34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own."http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14032,00.html?newsrellink The network was relaunched under the name Current on August 1, 2005.

2004 presidential election

Endorsing Dean

Initially, Al Gore was touted as a logical opponent of George W. Bush in the 2004 United States Presidential Election. "Re-elect Gore!" was a common slogan among many Democrats who felt the former Vice President had been unfairly cheated out of the presidency, on the grounds that he had won the popular vote and should have won the Electoral College votehttp://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm. On December 16, 2002 however, Gore announced that he would not run in 2004, saying that it was time for "fresh faces" and "new ideas" to emerge from the Democrats. When he appeared on a 60 Minutes interview, Gore said that he felt if he had run, the focus of the election would be the rematch rather than the issues. Gore's former running mate, Joe Lieberman quickly announced his own candidacy for the presidency, which he had vowed he would not do if Gore ran.

Despite Gore taking himself out of the race, a handful of his supporters formed a national campaign to "draft" him into running. However, that effort largely came to an end when Gore publicly endorsed Vermont Governor Howard Dean (over his former running mate Joe Lieberman) weeks before the first primary of the election cycle. This caused a rift due to the contentious relationship between Lieberman and Dean during the primary. Furthermore, Gore did not call Lieberman to apprise him of the endorsement. There was still some effort to encourage write-in votes for Gore in the primaries by a different group of Gore supporters who were separate from the draft movement. Although Gore did receive a small number of votes in New Hampshire and New Mexico, that effort was halted when John Kerry pulled into the lead for the nomination. 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.

Campaign against Bush

On February 9, 2004, on the eve of the Tennessee primary, Gore gave what many consider his harshest criticism of the president yet when he accused George W. Bush of betraying the country by using the 9/11 attacks as a justification for the invasion of Iraq. "He betrayed this country!" Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone. "He played on our fears! He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!" Gore also urged all Democrats to unite behind their eventual nominee proclaiming, "Any one of these candidates is far better than George W. Bush." In March 2004 Gore, along with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, united behind Kerry as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

On April 28, 2004, Gore announced that he would be donating $6 million to various Democratic Party groups. Drawing from his funds left over from his 2000 presidential campaign, Gore pledged to donate $4 million to the Democratic National Committee. The party's Senate and House committees would each get $1 million, and the party from Gore's home state of Tennessee would receive $250,000. In addition, Gore announced that all of the surplus funds in his "Recount Fund" from the 2000 election controversy that resulted in the Supreme Court halting the counting of the ballots, a total of $240,000, will be donated to the Florida Democratic Party.

In his speech, Gore stressed the importance of voting and having every vote counted, a point that foreshadowed the 2004 U.S. election voting controversies.

On May 26, 2004, Gore gave a highly critical speech on the Iraq crisis and the Bush Administration. In the speech, Gore demanded Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone all resign for encouraging policies that led to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and fanned hatred of Americans abroad. During the fiery speech, which lasted more than an hour, Gore called the Bush administration's Iraq war plan "incompetent" and called George W. Bush the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon, who resigned the office of the presidency in 1974 following the Watergate scandal.

Gore also decried the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, saying, "What happened at that prison, it is now clear, is not the result of random acts of a few bad apples. It was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy."

2004 Democratic National Convention

Post-convention

Policy positions

"It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply. Let me assure you that I share your belief that innocent human life must be protected. In my opinion, it is wrong to spend federal funds for what is arguably the taking of a human life…." (Boston Globe, p.A30 Jan 30, 2000)

Gore did not start consistently voting pro-choice until 1988. Gore explained the purported contradiction in his record by distinguishing his view on federal funding of institutions performing abortions from his view on the legality of abortion, "I voted to restrict federal funding of abortions^*

The Internet and the Webbys

Gore Bill

Gore was highly influenced by the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET [http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Transition.

After hearing this report, Gore introduced legislation during the late 1980s known informally as the Gore Bill It was passed, however, as the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 National Information Infrastructure [http://www.ibiblio.org/nii/goremarks.html" target="_blank" >^* which Gore referred to as the Information superhighway.

Leonard Kleinrock, in his article, "The Internet rules of engagement: then and now", lists this bill as an important moment in Internet history:

A second development occurred around this time, namely, then-Senator Al Gore, a strong and knowledgeable proponent of the Internet, promoted legislation that resulted in President George Bush signing the High Performance Computing and Communication act of 1991. This Act allocated $600 million for high performance computing and for the creation of the National Research and Education Network The NREN brought together industry, academia and government in a joint effort to accelerate the development and deployment of gigabit/sec networking [http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/PS/paper224.pdf.

Scientific American

Information superhighway

In the early 1990s the Internet was big news...In the fall of 1990 there were just 313,000 computers on the Internet; by 1996, there were close to 10 million. The networking idea became politicized during the 1992 Clinton-Gore election campaign, where the rhetoric of the 'information highway' captured the public imagination. On taking office in 1993, the new administration set in place a range of government initiatives for a National Information Infrastructure aimed at ensuring that all American citizens ultimately gain access to the new networks (p.283).

In February 1993, President Clinton and Vice President Gore submitted a report, Technology for America's Economic Growth which outlined the ways in which their administration planned further development of what Gore referred to as the Information Superhighway by the year 2000. Gore further developed these ideas in speeches that he made at The Superhighway Summit 1994-01-11 at Royce Hall, UCLA and for the International Telecommunications Union ^*" target="_blank" >on 1994-03-21. In addition, on 1994-01-13, Gore "became the first U.S. vice president to hold a live interactive news conference on an international computer network" ^*.

Mosaic

CNN interview

During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. ^*.

Cerf and Kahn response

^*s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.

Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective.^*

Apple Computer and Google

Webby award

Bibliography

• Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose, 1992, (ISBN 1853831379)
• Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less House 1995
• An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We can do about it, 2006, (ISBN 1594865671)

Television credits

• Larry King Live, (June 13, 2006)
• The Tonight Show, (June 9, 2006)
• Late Show with David Letterman, (June 8, 2006)
• The Today Show, (May 24, 2006)
• Saturday Night Live, (May 13, 2006)
• The Tonight Show, (August 1, 2005)
• Saturday Night Live, (December 14, 2002)
• The Tonight Show, (November 27, 2002)
• Futurama, "Crimes of the Hot", (November 10, 2002)
• Seven Days, "Stairway to Heaven", (October 11, 2000)
• The Late Show with David Letterman, (September 14, 2000)
• Futurama, "Anthology of Interest I", (May 21, 2000)
• Larry King Live, (April 20, 2000)
• Mad About You, "Breastfeeding", (January 6, 1998)
• Late Show with David Letterman, (September 8, 1993)

Trivia

• The 2006 South Park episode "ManBearPig" parodies Al Gore's stance on global warming.
• On March 19, 1979, Gore became the first person to appear on C-SPAN, making a speech in the House chambers.Gore Chronology up to 2000 Frontline PBS.org
• Gore's 1992 campaign song was Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al," which continued to be an informal theme song, though Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" was his official song for the 2000 presidential campaign.
• Gore provided a spoken-word contribution to the song "Al Gore", written by Robert Ellis Orral, and performed by Monkey Bowl.

See also

• Al Gore controversies
• An Inconvenient Truth

External links

• "The SNS Project" and Al Gore

General sites

• Al Gore Support Center 2008
• Al Gore '08
• Patriots for Al Gore
• ElectGore2008.com
• Gore 2008 Draft Portal
• Current TV
• The Official NARA Online Office Of Vice President Gore (1993-2001)
• Clinton-Gore Administration Accomplishments
• Al Gore on the Issues
• Political Donations Made by Al Gore

Recent speeches by Al Gore

• Gore's 2006 Martin Luther King Day Speech on NSA Spying Scandal and Restoring The Rule of Law (mp3 audio | transcript)
• Gore Speaks on Climate Change(200mb Video .avf)
• Gore Speaks On The Threat To Democracy
• Gore's Speech To The Sierra Club
• Gore Slams GOP's Efforts To End Filibuster
• Gore Charges The Bush Administration With A Failed Presidency
• Gore's Remarks At The 2004 Democratic Convention
• Gore Says Bush Lied To Push For War In Iraq
• Gore Calls for the Resignation of the Bush Team
• Gore Speaks on the Use of "Fear" in Politics -
• Gore Speaks on Global Warming and the Environment
• Gore Calls for the Repeal of the Patriot Act
• Gore Blasts Bush for Misleading America
• Gore Speaks On The Build Up To War With Iraq and The War On Terror
• Gore Speaks On Matching our Nation's Economic Course to Our Current Realities
• Fresh Air interview with Al Gore May 30, 2006

Al Gore's Current

• Official website of the television station Current

Al Gore and the Internet

• Internet History:Al Gore
• Remarks as Delivered by Vice President Al Gore to The Superhighway Summit, UCLA (1994) & Another URL with the speech
• Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet
• Snopes analyzes Gore's statement about his role in "creation" of the Internet
• Full Text of Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn's Email on Gore and the Internet

Al Gore's early career in journalism

• Columbia Journalism Review on Gore's journalistic past

Al Gore myths and media bias

• Gore Myths Page
• Media Bias Against Al Gore Exposed

Al Gore profile

• Wired Magazine (May 2006): The Resurrection of Al Gore
• The Life of Al Gore - Washington Post

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