Al Gore

While appearing as a guest on "The Dennis Miller Show" , he was asked about having confessed to smoking marijuana. Miller followed the question up by asking, "So, who rolls a tighter joint, you or Tipper?" Gore chuckled and cleverly side-stepped, managing not to give a real answer. Tipper Gore , however, who was watching just out of camera range, was shocked and fumed, not at all pleased with the line of questioning.

His roommates at Harvard were actor Tommy Lee Jones and Erich Segal.

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Graduated with honors from Harvard University, with a degree in government.

Served in Vietnam for nearly five months as an army journalist.

Worked as an investigative reporter at The Tennessean.

Attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Vanderbilt Law School.

Children: Karenna Gore (born August 6, 1973), Kristin Gore (born June 5, 1977), Sarah Gore (born January 7, 1979) and Albert Gore III (born October 19, 1982).

Is among the few known persons whose names anagram into one-word letters, i.e. transpositions. Re-arranging the letters in "Al Gore" yields either "galore" or "gaoler". Others names with this property include Tom Cruise ("costumier"), Condoleezza Rice (as Condi Rice: ("coincider"), Congressmen Ed Royce ("decoyer"), and Ed Pastor ("adopters", "pastored", "readopts") and commentator Eleanor Clift ("reflectional").

From an article by Mountain Democrat columnist David Jacobsen: "In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer , Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means that as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that he could patent the science, though thats how the quotation has been manipulated. Hence the disingenuous substitution of "inventing" for the actual language."

Is fluent in Spanish.

Scored 1350 on the SAT.

Has two grandchildren by daughter Karenna Gore : grandson Wyatt born July 4, 1999 and granddaughter Anna born August 23, 2001.

(December 2002): Announced on CBSs "60 Minutes" that he will not be running for President in 2004.

Served in the US House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Tennessee, 3 January 1977 - 3 January 1985.

Served as a Democratic US senator from Tennessee, 3 January 1985 - 2 January 1993 (resigned; sworn in as vice president on 20 January 1993).

Is a huge fan of the Tennessee Titans football team.

Vice president of The United States, 20 January 1993 - 20 January 2001.

Wife, Tipper Gore , shares a birthday with his presidential running mate, former President Bill Clinton (August 19).

Receiving The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for taking the initiative to help create the Internet.

Son of Albert Gore Sr.

Though he claims Tennessee as his home state, and was a congressman and senator from that state, he lived there for only four years of his entire life. He was born in Washington, DC (his father, Albert Gore Sr. , was a senator from Tennessee). He lived in DC until he graduated from high school, then moved to Harvard from 1965-1969. After graduating from Harvard, he was a journalist in the US Army in Vietnam from 1969-1971. The only years he lived in Tennessee were from 1971-1976, when he attended Vanderbilt Law School. He never practiced law, however, because a few months after graduation from law school in 1976 he was elected to the US House of Representatives. Later he was elected to the US Senate, where he served until January 1993.

One of his eight times great-grandfathers, Domingo Madeiros, was a Portuguese man who came to Virginia in the 17th century, making Al Gore 1/1024 Portuguese. His other ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and a smaller amount of German.

A distant relative of Jessica Simpson , Ashlee Simpson , Rosemary Gore.

: Ran for President and won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote 271-266. On election night several TV networks twice declared a winner in the state of Florida prematurely based on exit polls, before deciding the race was too close to call. It became clear that both candidates needed Floridas electoral votes to win the presidency. A month of controversial court challenges and recounts followed, until the Supreme Court of the United States in Bush v. Gore voted 7-2 to declare the ongoing recount procedure unconstitutional because it feared that different standards would be used in different parts of the state. It then halted further recounts by voting 5-4 to ban further recounts using alternate procedures. George W. Bush was certified as the winner in Florida by a margin of 537 votes, thereby defeating Gore.

Was a member of the Harvard Debating Team.

Debated with presidential candidate Ross Perot on live TV.

Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing the prize with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Had he been the actual recipient of an Academy Award for the documentary An Inconvenient Truth in which he starred, he would have become the first person other than George Bernard Shaw to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Per Academy rules, the Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth was presented to director Davis Guggenheim.

Drives only hybrid vehicles.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change (12 October 2007).

Born to Albert Gore Sr. , a U.S. Representative and Senator from Tennessee, and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore, he had one older sister, Nancy Gore Hunger (died in 1984 from lung cancer).

(October 29, 2007) Merited a place in Time magazines Special Issue "Heroes of the Environment" (Leaders & Visionaries section) with a tribute penned by Carl Pope , Executive Director of the Sierra Club.

After serving only five months of what would ordinarily have been a twelve month tour in Vietnam (as a "journalist") Gore attended but did not graduate from Vanderbilt School of Divinity and attended but did not graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. Instead, he took the opportunity to run for the U.S. House of Representatives.

(March 2003) Elected to Apple Computers Board of Directors.

Senior Advisor to Google, Inc.

Visiting Professor at UCLA, Fisk University, and Middle Tennessee State University.

Won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election but lost the electoral college vote. The next time that this would happen is in the 2016 presidential election, when his running mate Bill Clintons wife Hillary Clinton ran for president.

Good friends with Matt Groening. He has made voice-over appearances as himself on his shows The Simpsons and Futurama.

Is the first Democrat in the 20th century to win the popular vote but still lost the presidential election.

[on TV show "Nightline", 5/5/86, regarding the unsuccessful launch of an,unmanned rocket shortly after the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion],To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

I work very hard to get in touch with my feminine side.

A zebra does not change its spots.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U. S.

India, Vietnam, and Spain.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

A zebra does not change its spots.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.