Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn) yesterday joined a growing list of Democratic presidential hopefuls, calling on the nation to "turn to youth, to vigor and to intellectual capacity." Gore's announcement, made at a press conference in Washington, ended several weeks of speculation on whether the 39-year-old would run for the nation's top office...
...politics abhors a vacuum, and last week there were signs that two of the brightest, and youngest, lights in Southern politics were poised to enter the race: Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, 39, and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, 40. Gore acknowledges that he has "agreed to actively consider the possibility of running." Money does not appear to be an obstacle: after meeting with Gore in Washington on Friday, a dozen top Democratic fund raisers anointed him as their candidate if he enters the race by next week. "If Albert Gore runs," promises Developer Nathan Landow, "he will be a well- financed...
...many ways, Gore and Clinton could have stepped down from the same campaign poster. Both are handsome and telegenic, popular with fellow politicians, and have built progressive reputations without being tarred as squishy liberals...
Even with the Southern regional primary, a storybook ending is unlikely, at least in 1988. Clinton and even a well-funded Gore would be starting late with little national following. But with secure local bases, these Cotton Dust Twins have little to lose by whistling Dixie -- making a national name, picking up some Southern delegates and, at worst, positioning themselves for 1992 and beyond...
...nominee, Frances FitzGerald '62, is a well-known and well-respected left-wing author. She is also a member of the editorial advisory board of The Nation, as solid a leftist credential as there is. And Sen. Gore is certainly no appeaser of apartheid. He voted last summer for particularly harsh sanctions against South Africa. That will certainly have more effect on conditions there than Harvard hemming and hawing and "taking a stand for the values of equality and freedom that we ostensibly hold sacrosanct...