Word: gores
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...letter sent just as the summer began in 1966, Gore wrote from his Tennessee home, "The cattle party was tonight--the sale is tomorrow. It's 11 o'clock and I have to be up at 5. That's not so bad but I didn't get any sleep last night...
Though he spent much of his early life in a fancy Washington, D. C. hotel--perhaps, some have said, giving him a sense of privilege--he spent most of his summer vacations in Tennessee. And nearly all of Gore's biographers, even the critical ones like Robert Zelnick, say that Gore's parents insisted that their son learn the value of working with his hands...
...Mother's having a fit about me riding the motorcycle back to Harvard," Gore noted, referring to the Honda he used to ride to visit Tipper at Boston University. "Dad's mad about my long hair. I didn't even think it was long...
...have to conduct a search to find a less connected bunch of Harvard," Somerby says. "Tommy Lee Jones came from a working-class background.... By Harvard standards, [Gore] was living with the complete proletariat...
...Even Gore's room wasn't spectacular. "We just looked out on a big tree," Somerby says...