Word: alberts
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However, even though Gore is the Democratic candidate most likely to win votes in the South, he is far from being a racist, conservative good ol' boy. Like his father--former Senator Albert Gore, Sr., who, alone among all Southern senators, refused to sign the "Southern Manifesto" attacking "Brown v. Board of Education"--Gore has been a strong supporter of civil rights legislation and has vehemently criticized recent Administration attempts to gut the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action. Indeed, after Jackson, Gore is the top choice of several major civil rights groups. Gore has also sponsored and supported legislation...
...Prince Albert meets The Outsider. A Southern-style barn-burner, or at least that's what Gary Trudeau would have us believe...
Despite an absence of top-name endorsements in Texas, the latest poll conducted by two Texas newspapers showed Dukakis leading with 30 percent, Jesse Jackson in second with 17 percent, Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt with 13 percent, Tennessee Sen. Albert J. Gore Jr. '69 with 10 percent and undecided voters at 25 percent. Former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart and Illinois Sen. Paul Simon trailed in the single numbers...
Super Tuesday's claim to Southern supremacy rested on the assumption that there would be a Southern candidate to lead the charge. But Sarr Nunn balked at the opportunity, and so did former Virginia Governor Charles Robb. That left Albert Gore '69, Harvard overseer, prep-school graduate to carry the mantle. But the Eastern-educated senator has had his troubles convincing voters that he's a good ole' boy who was brought up on a pig farm in Tennessee...
...Albert J. Gore, Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.):"On election night, I would send a telegram to theSecretary of Education, William Bennett, and tellhim to start cleaning out his desk," Gore recentlytold a University of North Carolina audience.Nevertheless, he does not rule out SecretaryBennett's proposal of linking Federal assistanceto colleges to "some kind of responsibleperformance at controlling [tuition] costs...