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To: jlallen who wrote (16790)	4/11/2000 2:45:00 PM
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In the latest chapter of his fiction book "My life - The History of the United States Of America", Ice Tea Al pretends his mother's 1971 snubbing at the Nashville City Club, caused such outrage that a couple of days later, the club changed it's male only policy. Kendra Gahagan ABCNEWS.COM From inventing the Internet to inspiring the film Love Story, Al Gore's penchant for exaggeration is well known. Today, he may have stretched the facts again. In a speech honoring his mother at the Nashville City Club in Tennessee, the vice president told an anecdote about how Pauline LaFon Gore was invited for lunch at the club in 1971, only to be summarily kicked out of the main dining room due to the club's all-male policy. Gore went on to recount how his mother's ouster drew local outrage and she was a key instigator in the club's changing its rules toward women: "The resulting outrage, especially among young professional women here in Nashville, caused a revolution - a minor one, albeit - but a major change in the life of this club and a few days later, this city club was opened to women and the charter was changed." http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20000411/pl/20000411003.html