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| | Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948, Washington) - served as
Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President
Bill Clinton and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Career:
Senator of Tennessee- Earlier, Albert Arnold Gore Sr., father of Al
Gore served as senator from Tennessee. Proposed by Democratic Party
along with Clinton during the 1992 elections; Both the candidates were
young and Governor of less significant Arkansas state - Mr. Clinton
was even more unknown. The then President George Bush Sr. had promised
before the elections that the taxes would not be increased, however,
after being elected as President, he did not keep his promise. As a
result, he lost many votes while seeking the office for the second
term. Specific role was played by the "trilateral" election campaign
(Refer Ross Perot). As a result, Clinton along with Al Gore managed a
win over existing President.
Nonpolitical activities:
At present (2006), al Gore is President of American television channel
Current, has been a member of the board of directors of Apple
Corporation & serves unofficially as a Senior Advisor to Google Inc-
one of the most famous internet search engines worldwide. Gore stated
that he is no more interested in presidency but still yet to decide
his political future.
In 2001, Gore also made numerous appearances in cartoon "Futurama".
Gore starred in the documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth", which
won the 2007 Oscar Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
On July 7, 2007, Live Earth benefit concerts were held around the
world in an effort to raise the awareness about climate change and the
event was brainchild of Gore.
Work of Al Gore to raise the awareness of people about global warming
is laughed-off in the episode "Man Bear Pig" of serial "South Park",
where Al Gore hunts a weird creature, invented by them to draw
attention of the public.
Nobel Peace Prize:
On October 12, 2007, Albert Arnold Gore (Jr.) was conferred Nobel
Peace Prize "for the efforts to build up and disseminate greater
knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundation for
the measures that are needed to counteract such change". |
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Former Vice President Al Gore was awarded the 
