Al Gore was a hell of a young man!
We would've been much better off with him as POTUS!
Harvard
Gore enrolled in Harvard College in 1965, initially planning to major in English and write novels, but later deciding to major in government.[18][19] On his second day on campus, he began campaigning for the freshman student government council, and was elected its president.[19]
Although he was an avid reader who fell in love with scientific and mathematical theories,[19] he did not do well in science classes in college, and avoided taking math.[18] His grades during his first two years put him in the lower one-fifth of the class. During his sophomore year, he reportedly spent much of his time watching television, shooting pool, and occasionally smoking marijuana.[18][19] In his junior and senior years, he became more involved with his studies, earning As and Bs.[18] In his senior year, he took a class with oceanographer and global warming theorist Roger Revelle, who sparked Gore's interest in global warming and other environmental issues.[19][27] Gore earned an A on his thesis, "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947-1969", and graduated with an A.B. cum laude in June 1969.[18][28]
When Gore graduated in 1969, his student deferment ended and he immediately became eligible for the military draft. His father, a vocal anti-Vietnam War critic, was facing a reelection in 1970. Gore eventually decided that the best way he could contribute to the anti-war effort was to enlist in the Army, which would improve his father's reelection prospects.[30] Although nearly all of his Harvard classmates avoided the draft and service in Vietnam,[31] Gore believed if he found a way around military service, he would be handing an issue to his father's Republican opponent.[32] According to Gore's Senate biography, "He appeared in uniform in his father's campaign commercials, one of which ended with his father advising: 'Son, always love your country.'[30] Despite this, Gore Sr. lost the election.
Gore has said that his other reason for enlisting was that he did not want someone with fewer options than he to go in his place.[33] Actor Tommy Lee Jones, a former college housemate, recalled Gore saying that "if he found a fancy way of not going, someone else would have to go in his place."[19][34] His Harvard advisor, Richard Neustadt, also stated that Gore decided, "that he would have to go as an enlisted man because, he said, 'In Tennessee, that's what most people have to do.'" In addition, Michael Roche, Gore's editor for The Castle Courier, stated that "anybody who knew Al Gore in Vietnam knows he could have sat on his butt and he didn't."[32]
After enlisting in August 1969, Gore returned to the anti-war Harvard campus in his military uniform to say goodbye to his adviser and was "jeered" at by students.[13][19] He later said he was astonished by the "emotional field of negativity and disapproval and piercing glances that ... certainly felt like real hatred".[19]
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