Word: gores
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Macon's whites are a tad cynical about Gore. "I've heard some people wonder whether he's too wishy-washy," says Lawing, "trying to look more conservative in the South than he really is." Competition from foreign textiles and other imports worries people, and Gephardt's protectionist message might find a sympathetic audience. "If he's for limiting imports," says Prew Wilson, 54, who lost his job at a textile mill last Christmas, "you can bet I'll listen...
...years ago, walking the U.S. Capitol together, debating, opposing, befriending one another for a decade in the mannered legislative rituals of the time. They were A. Willis Robertson, old-line Democrat of Virginia; Prescott S. Bush, Republican investment banker from the moneyed precincts of Connecticut; and Democrat Albert A. Gore, feisty country teacher turned lawyer out of the hills of Tennessee...
More important for our time, they all had sons who were nurtured in politics. History now has summoned the sons to the struggle for the presidency, and there are echoes to be heard from long ago. The Super Tuesday performances of George Bush, Pat Robertson and Al Gore Jr. will have a profound effect on one another and, of course, the nation...
None of the old Senators ever dreamed of such an event, says Albert Gore Sr., the only one of the three still alive. At 80 he is a cheery and tireless campaigner for his son. "I've been through 35 states, and I have 13 to go," he said over the phone from New Orleans last week. Then he reminisced...
Back then Gore fought Bush's efforts to lift the 4.5% interest lid on Government bonds. Bush hammered Gore's enthusiasm for the Trade Expansion Act in John Kennedy's Administration. But the two joined in the struggles for civil rights legislation. "There was never an impolite exchange between us," recalls Gore. "We could debate for two hours and then go down to the Senate Dining Room and have coffee together...