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Thisdaypeople.com present Albert Arnold Gore as our guest of the week.
Al Gore is an experiened professional whose views continue to influence opinion,policies and global perception.
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Mr. Albert A. Gore, Jr.
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Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. was born March 31,1948, environmental activist, author, public intellectual, businessperson,
former politician, and former journalist. He served as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
under President Bill Clinton.Former Vice President Al Gore is cofounder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management,
a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing. Gore is also cofounder and Chairman of Current TV,
an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism.
A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor
at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University,
and the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001.
Mr. Gore is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, a best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming,
and the subject of the movie of the same title, which has already become one of the top documentary films in history.
In 2007, An Inconvenient Truth was awarded two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song.
Since his earliest days in the U. S. Congress 30 years ago, Al Gore has been the leading advocate for confronting
the threat of global warming. His pioneering efforts were outlined in his best-selling book Earth in the Balance:
Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He led the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to protect the environment
in a way that also strengthens the economy. In 2000, Gore was the Democatic nominee for president in the presidential
election. He won the popular vote but ultimately lost to Republican candidate George W. Bush. A legal controversy over
the Florida election recount was eventually settled in favor of Bush by the Supreme Court.
In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for
"efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations
for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Al Gore,the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline Gore was raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C.,
he received a degree in government with honors from Harvard University in 1969. After graduation, he volunteered for enlistment
in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War. Upon returning from Vietnam, Al Gore became an investigative reporter with the
Tennessean in Nashville, where he also attended Vanderbilt University's Divinity School and then Law School.
Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, reside in Nashville, Tennessee. They have four children- Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, and Albert III;
and three grandchildren: Wyatt Gore Schiff, Anna Hunger Schiff, and Oscar Aitcheson Schiff.
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