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Al Gore: Southern Democrats
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Albert Gore Sr. refuses to sign the "Southern Manifesto," which opposed federal efforts to desegregate schools. That same year, the Interstate Highway Act is passed; Senator Gore helped write this major piece of legislation and later assumed credit for it.
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At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore gaving a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.
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"This is not going to be a liberal network or a Democrat network or a political network in any way, shape or form," Gore said. Other reports say that Gore hopes that the channel will help change the tide of "consolidation and conglomeratization" of the media by leading the change to "democratization."
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There were mountains of ink spilled about this episode, but the short story is this: Gore appeared at a Buddhist temple at what was obviously a fundraiser, though technically it was called something else for legal reasons. The criminal part is that the temple gave monks money to reimburse them for donations to Gore and the Democrats.
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