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...have Tipper croon He's So Fine...
...founder of the Parents Music Resource Center, Tipper Gore spearheaded a campaign against offensive rock lyrics that culminated in widely publicized hearings in 1985 before her husband, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore, and other lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee. Now that he is campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, however, Gore does not want to alienate entertainment figures who are a rich source of funds for the party. So the Senator and his wife traveled to Hollywood last month for a not entirely harmonious gathering with music-industry executives. "The Gores looked on it as an opportunity to clear...
Wives today are willing to make sacrifices -- but only up to a point. Take Tipper Gore, for instance. Her husband, Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, is in hot pursuit of the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Still, she has not abandoned her decade-long crusade against violence in the media, an involvement that her husband has supported. Gore continues her own schedule of lectures and joins her husband on the campaign trail for perhaps three days a week. "I feel a bit of a conflict," she admits. "But so far I'm campaigning and also being true to myself...
...notes taken by Daughter Kristin, 10, they agreed on the No. 1 negative: "Dad wouldn't be here a lot." Karenna, 14, worried about his relative obscurity compared with the front runner at that time: "It would be hard to get more publicity than Gary Hart." Gore's wife Tipper was also torn. Co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center, an organization that opposes rock lyrics featuring sex, violence, drugs or alcohol, she was just starting a national tour to promote her book, Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society. "Especially with me already very busy...
...Fairfax Hotel, where his parents had an apartment. He fondly remembers climbing onto the roof and hurling water balloons down on the cars on Massachusetts Avenue. He was an honor student and captain of the football team at the patrician St. Alban's School. He met Tipper (a childhood nickname; her real name is Mary Elizabeth) at his St. Alban's graduation party. John Davis, who taught Gore church history, remembers him as the straightest arrow in the quiver, someone whose only evident vice was an excess of virtue: "Everybody would think, 'This can't be real...