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To: Brumar89 who wrote (34281)	9/3/2000 8:46:20 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

Gore acknowledged that something went wrong, although he claimed it was the fault of the reporters. However, if he had told them that the original story in the Tennessee paper was mistaken, how could it have turned into an affirmative claim? Gore concedes 'miscommunication' about 'Love Story' role 4:12 p.m. EST (2112 GMT) December 14, 1997 WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Al Gore acknowledged Sunday a "miscommunication'' on his part in leading reporters to believe he and his wife were the model for the 1970s hot romance novel "Love Story.'' The author, Erich Segal, told The New York Times he was "befuddled'' by the comments in the first place. He said he called Gore, and the vice president said it was a misunderstanding. On Sunday, Gore spokeswoman Ginny Terzano borrowed a line from the book in offering Gore's apology. "If love means never having to say you're sorry, then politics means you have to say it all the time,'' Terzano said. "We apologize if there was a miscommunication with reporters in an off-the-record conversation where they did not take notes.'' Segal told the Times he got to know both Gore and his roommate — actor Tommy Lee Jones — during his 1968 sabbatical at Harvard. Jones got his acting break with a small part in the film version of Segal's book. When creating Oliver Barrett 4th, the book's romantic hero, Segal said, Jones inspired the side that was "the tough, macho guy who's a poet at heart.'' Gore was the basis for the side that had a controlling father and was pressured to follow in that father's footsteps, he said. "That was the conflict, to keep up the family tradition. Albert Gore Sr., Albert Gore Jr., Oliver Barrett 3rd, Oliver Barrett 4th — you have to change some things,'' Segal said. Segal said he knew Mrs. Gore, then a Boston University student, but she wasn't the basis for his female love interest, the hip, flip Jenny Cavilleri. Segal has previously said she was inspired by a woman he dated at Harvard. Terzano said the "Love Story'' character "is an endearing footnote'' in Gore's life. "'Love Story' buffs should not blow it out of proportion, nor attempt to write a new sequel to this American classic,'' she said. The controversy grew from a Time magazine report about Gore's musings aboard Air Force Two following a three-city tour of Texas last month. Gore spoke of an old Tennessee newspaper account that said he and his wife, Tipper, were the models for Oliver and Jenny. Segal said Gore told him he only told the reporters the article made an erroneous connection. ccnet.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (34281)	9/3/2000 9:46:40 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

“Vice President Al Gore brings a remarkable life story to the presidential race: His father was such an unwavering supporter of civil rights that it cost him his Senate seat. His older sister was the first-ever volunteer in the Peace Corps, that heroic outpost on President Kennedy's New Frontier. By Gore's account: He was raised in hardscrabble Tennessee farm country. He was a brilliant student, in high school and at Harvard. And despite his political pull, he received no special treatment, opting instead to go to Vietnam where he was ‘shot at.’ After his Army service, he spent seven years as a journalist, and his reporting at the Tennessean in Nashville put corrupt officials in prison. “As a junior member in the US House, he was a major force: He wrote and then spearheaded passage of the Superfund law. He even authored the US nuclear negotiating position. And at a time when President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev faced off on the superpower stage, Gore had his own meeting with Gorbachev. And, of course, he created the Internet. At various times in his political career, Gore, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said all those things about himself and his family. None are quite true. Some are exaggerations grown up around kernels of biographical fact. Others are simply false. A few, like the boastful claim about the Internet, have become comic fodder, even for Gore.” - Boston Globe, 4/11/00 members.aol.com