Investigating Al Gore - The vice president, Armand Hammer and zinc. ~ WSJ.'s Micah Morrison [Free Republic]

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Investigating Al Gore - The vice president, Armand Hammer and zinc. ~ WSJ.'s Micah Morrison: Crime/Corruption Extended News News Keywords: ALBERT GORE JR ~ ARMAND HAMMER ~ ZINC ~ OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM ~ ORIENTAL CONNECTIONS
Source: The Wall Street Journal.'s Opinion Journal.
Published: August 12, 2000 Author: Micah Morrison
Posted on 08/12/2000 03:57:37 PDT by Elle Bee

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Investigating Al Gore
The vice president, Armand Hammer and zinc.

Saturday, August 12, 2000 12:01 a.m. EDT

Micah Morrison, senior editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal, has taken two close looks at Vice President Al Gore's financial background, in particular his family's connections to Armand Hammer, the business executive famous for his friendship with the Soviet Union and for pleading guilty to making illegal campaign contributions in the Watergate affair.

In June, Mr. Morrison detailed Mr. Gore's zinc-mining concession. The Gore family obtained the property in question from Mr. Hammer. Last September, in the Gore half of a two-part series on the financial background of Mr. Gore and George W. Bush, he detailed Mr. Hammer's connections, starting when Al Gore was a child and his father a Senator.

Click on the links below to read these stories:

Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner, June 29, 2000

Vetting the Frontrunners, a two-part series, Sept. 28-29, 1999

VETTING THE NOMINEE

Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner
Originally published in The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2000.

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February 14, 2000

What's in a Name? In Al Gore's Case,
Middle Initial Is Just Another Letter

By GLENN SIMPSON
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON -- When Vice President Al Gore visited the Roberta C. Cartwright Elementary School in Henderson, Nev., in October, fifth-grader Christopher Hoch waited nearly an hour to ask just one question: "What's your middle name?"

Mr. Gore didn't answer, turning the question around and asking young Christopher his middle name.

Reporters in attendance, intrigued by this, asked the vice president's staff. They were directed to publicly released copies of his tax returns and other documents, in which the name is listed as Albert Arnold Gore, the same as that of his father, the late Tennessee senator.

Over the years, Mr. Gore seems to have sometimes used, and sometimes dropped, the middle name of Arnold. He also alternated between using and not using the suffix "Jr." But a copy of his birth certificate, provided after repeated requests by Mr. Gore's office on Jan. 31, the day before the New Hampshire primary, reveals a curiosity: Legally, Mr. Gore's name is simply Albert A. Gore.

That's reminiscent of another famous Democrat, former President Harry S. Truman, who had no middle name. Mr. Truman said that in spite of the period, the S didn't stand for anything. It was a compromise between the names of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.

Meanwhile, Mr. Gore's spokesman, Chris Lehane, released a brief explanation: "Al Gore's parents gave him the option of which middle name to use. Since he was a teenager, he has chosen to use Albert Arnold Gore."

Born in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1948, the future vice president's arrival was heralded on the front page of the Nashville Tennessean, because of his father's position. The senator had previously noted that the child of then-Rep. Estes Kefauver had gotten lesser treatment, and remarked: "If I have a boy baby, I don't want the news buried in the inside of the paper." So the day after his son was born, the Tennessean obliged by carrying the headline: "Well Mr. Gore, Here HE Is -- On Page One."

The story didn't give a name for the boy, nor did a birth notice published in the Washington Post.

Moreover, on Mr. Gore's birth certificate, the space left for the "Child's Full Name" is blank, apparently reflecting some early indecision on the part of the Gores about what to call their son.

At the bottom of the page, however, is a handwritten notation in script added nine days after the birth. It appears exactly as follows: "name of child Albert A. Gore... .added from Supp. Report 4-10."

Write to Glenn Simpson at glenn.simpson@wsj.com

1 Posted on 08/12/2000 03:57:37 PDT by Elle Bee (LQQK4LB@home.com)
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To: Elle Bee

Thanks for the additional info Elle Bee.

The Real Al Gore Sr.(A Must Read)...check the date of the article. Wonder why the media doesn't pick up on this? It couldn't be because they are (GASP)~~~LIBERAL~~~(/GASP) do you?

2 Posted on 08/12/2000 04:04:09 PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: Elle Bee

Maintain power inside the eight lane death strip which controls our life. The prize is power and money and has nothing to do with making our lives better.

3 Posted on 08/12/2000 04:04:14 PDT by bmwcyle
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To: CHIEF negotiator

My NEW favorite campaign slogan purloined from LRM:

TERMITES WANTED

4 Posted on 08/12/2000 05:14:01 PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

Since Gore is a JR., why did the reporters ask Gore's aides what Gore's middle name is? Simple to look up his Senator dad's name....too much effort required, I guess.

5 Posted on 08/12/2000 05:28:51 PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Carolinamom

Because Gore has yet to give a straight answer to even that basic question

How bad is it when you even flop-flop on your own middle name?

6 Posted on 08/12/2000 05:34:08 PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

TERMITES WANTED

7 Posted on 08/12/2000 05:35:38 PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: CHIEF negotiator, elle bee, Jim Robinson

I gladly "bump" every thread I see concerning the political prostitutes Al Gore Sr., Gore Jr., and their pimp-sugar-daddy Armand Hammer's seditious ties to the Communist International. This topic is perhaps the most extremely disturbing (and hence, of course, unreported) "Open Secret" about Alfalfa Alpha Algore in this election season.

The Gore family proves that TREASON can, in fact, be an inheritable trait.

BTTT

8 Posted on 08/12/2000 05:41:46 PDT by Uriel1975
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To: CHIEF negotiator

Thanks and please know I will abuse the graphic at every chance

9 Posted on 08/12/2000 05:56:16 PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

Me too...thanks for the idea.

10 Posted on 08/12/2000 05:58:21 PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: Uriel1975; CHIEF negotiator

TRE[E]ason

Hmmmmmm.....have to work on that one

11 Posted on 08/12/2000 07:14:42 PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

Maybe we should rename Gore, THE HAMMERED COMMIE - VICEOILPOTUS... THC-VOILPOTUS for short. Kinda has a ~~~ring~~~ to it, huh?

:-? Peace(pipe)

12 Posted on 08/12/2000 07:21:16 PDT by CHIEF negotiator
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To: CHIEF negotiator

Bump!

13 Posted on 08/12/2000 08:42:47 PDT by Bigun
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To: Bigun

Does anyone know if Gore invested in the Private Prison Industry?

14 Posted on 08/12/2000 14:38:06 PDT by jimlilko (jimlilko@cisnet.com)
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To: CHIEF negotiator

Maybe we can find out who the real Algone2000 is - on our own...

15 Posted on 08/12/2000 15:00:43 PDT by Libloather
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What's in a Name? In Al Gore's Case,Middle Initial Is Just Another Letter

What's in a Name? In Al Gore's Case,
Middle Initial Is Just Another Letter