Word: gored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that of such a fiscal conservative as Democrat Harry Byrd. The bill can probably pass over their opposition, but it will need down-the-line support from liberals. And for that reason the man whom White House strategists are most worried about is Tennessee's Albert Arnold Gore, 55, a liberal member of the Senate Finance Committee whose dislike of the bill may influence other liberals...
...farm boy from Possum Hollow, near Granville, Tenn., Gore worked his way through a state teachers college at Murfreesboro by teaching country school. Later, after taking courses offered by the Y.M.C.A., he got a law degree, decided to enter politics, campaigned with a fiddle that scraped out lively hillbilly tunes, and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1938, when he was 30. Gore earned a reputation among colleagues as a remarkably diligent worker-in his first year, during a House economy drive, he was the Democrat responsible for the defeat of a Roosevelt bill...
...Bitten. After 14 years in the House, Gore handily won the Senate seat of aging Kenneth McKellar in 1952, soon won choice assignments on the Finance, Foreign Relations and Joint Atomic Energy committees. He was the Senate's chief sponsor of the 1956 bill creating the interstate highway system, then killed Eisenhower's plan for bond financing and substituted his own pay-as-you-go tax system. In 1958, he was the first Senator to propose a treaty with Russia banning atmospheric nuclear testing...
...Twice, Gore came within hailing distance of the Democratic nomination for Vice President. The first time was in 1956, when Adlai Stevenson was looking for a running mate. Recalls Wife Pauline: "I had been picking vice-presidential bugs off Albert for a year, but when Governor Stevenson announced the nomination was open, I looked at Albert and discovered I had missed one and it already had bitten him." On the first ballot Gore, with 178 votes, trailed Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver and hopeful Jack Kennedy; on the second he saw the handwriting, withdrew, and supported Kefauver, who won. Again...
...Opposed. A meticulously groomed man with a handsome head of silver hair, Gore neither smokes nor drinks, is one of the Senate's more accomplished speakers and an authority on fiscal policy. His money views were forged under a courthouse maple in Carthage, Tenn., where, as a youth, he talked with then-Representative Cordell Hull about foreign trade, taxation, public debt. At its simplest, Gore's fiscal philosophy is that the national economy should be stimulated by increased public works, not by tax cutting...