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Gore Profile

NPR

Published October 25, 2000 at 9:00 PM PDT

Anthony Brooks traces the career path that brought Al Gore Jr., the son of a U.S. Senator from Tenessee, to his presidential canidacy. After college and a tour in Vietnam in the Army, he didn't want to enter his father's field of politics. But after a stint as a journalist, he changed his mind.