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Born March 31, 1948, Washington is an actor, screenwriter, and US Vice President (1993-2001).
In 1956-1965 he studied at St. Albans School. He then entered Harvard University, graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts. After completing his studies, he volunteered for the United States Army, despite the fact that neither he nor his father supported the ongoing Vietnam War. As a military journalist with an engineering brigade, he spent several months in South Vietnam in 1971, after which he was demobilized. He worked for the newspaper The Tennessean, in 1974-1976 he studied at the Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Senator from Tennessee - the same chair was previously held by his father, Al Gore Sr. Nominated for the post of US Vice President from the Democratic Party in conjunction with Bill Clinton in the 1992 elections; both candidates were young, and the governor of the insignificant state of Arkansas, Clinton, was relatively little known. The then president, George W. Bush, promised not to raise taxes before his election, however, becoming president, he broke his word. As a result, he lost many votes when trying to be elected for a second term. The specificity of the “trilateral” election campaign also played a certain role (see Ross Perot). As a result, Clinton and Gore managed to defeat the incumbent president.
Gore became 45th vice president in 1993. In 1996, he was re-elected with Clinton for a second term. Gore actively supported Clinton's policies, shared his popularity, and as early as 1996 clearly stated his own presidential ambitions.
Throughout the eight years of Clinton's presidency and Gore's vice presidency, the American economy has grown. One of the factors behind this was the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, for which Gore voted with his casting vote. One of Gore's major accomplishments as vice president is the implementation of the National Performance Review, which identifies waste, fraud and other abuses by the federal government, and highlights the need to reduce bureaucracy and directives. Gore claims that the document helped further Clinton in reducing the federal government.
Back in 1991, he passed the High Performance Computing and Communication Act. As Vice President of the United States, Al Gore contributed greatly to the development of the Internet. For this, some call him "the father of the Internet." At the same time, in the hypostasis of the "creator of the Internet" (an expression taken out of the context of his own quote), Gore often became the subject of ridicule.
The 2000 presidential election, however, did not bring Gor and his fellow bloc member Joe Lieberman any success. Vice President Gore was nominated for the Democratic nomination without much difficulty, convincingly defeating his only rival, former basketball player and Senator Bill Bradley, in the party primaries. In August 2000, at a Democratic convention in Los Angeles, he was officially nominated by his daughter Karenna Gore-Schiff and his Harvard dorm roommate, actor Tommy Lee Jones. Al Gore's campaign focused on the country's economic prosperity during the Clinton administration and promised to continue the same policy. Among the important proposals of his program was the expansion of the Medicare health insurance program towards universal health care and prescription drug coverage.
However, in the elections, gaining more (543,000) votes than the Republican George W. Bush (that is, more than 51 million), Al Gore received fewer votes. Moreover, such a result was determined as a result of a vote in Florida, where Bush won with a minimum final advantage of 537 votes, or less than one hundredth of a percent. In this situation, Gore and his supporters did not give up, but demanded more and more recounts of votes, rightly believing that when counting 6 million ballots, mistakes were inevitable - and these mistakes (from both sides) were found. Finally, after a month of recounts and lawsuits, on December 12, 2000, the US Supreme Court, by 5 votes to 4, ruled to discontinue the recounts and accept the latest results. Gore lost.
Subsequently, while presiding as vice president of the joint Congressional tabulation session, Gore rejected twenty consecutive proposals from twenty members of the House of Representatives to annul Florida electoral votes, which would have brought him victory.
In 2001, Gore was involved in the dubbing of the cartoon Futurama. Gore was one of the initiators of the Live Earth Festival on July 7, 2007. Cameo in episode 5 of the second season, as well as episode 6 of the fourth season of the NBC television series 30 Rock.
In 2007, Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth about the human impact on climate won two Oscars (for Best Documentary and Best Original Song).
On October 12, 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on environmental protection and research on climate change. At the same time, William M. Gray, an American meteorologist and supporter of climate skepticism, described the theory for which Gore received the award as "ludicrous."
Until 2013, Gore was a co-owner of the American TV channel Current. At one time, Gore served on the board of directors of Apple Inc. and worked as an unofficial advisor-manager for Google.
