Word: tennessean
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...catapulted to Washington as the son of a state political icon, worked for five years at The Tennessean, the largest state paper, and was born in Carthage--was rudely rejected by his state at the ballot box. In this absurdly close election, it has made all the difference...
...During the day, some people thought it was going to be like the super bowl--we'd be a yard short. But this Tennessean is in the end zone, and it feels great," Gore said...
...David Cassidy haircut and has been known to show up at important meetings in shorts. But both are products of Washington prep schools who trace their roots to rural Tennessee. When the future Vice President was an up-and-coming investigative reporter and editorial writer at the Nashville Tennessean, his future strategist was sitting at the next desk as a summer intern. Eskew later made a reputation for simple, funny, devastatingly effective political advertisements, the most famous being a cartoon series in which he portrayed popular Republican Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker as a big, lazy bear snoozing through votes...
Gore graduated from Harvard and served two years as an Army journalist in Vietnam. Upon his return to the United States, he attended the Divinity School for a while, and then was hired as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean...
...NASHVILLE] Tennessean anti-Gore headlines in September...