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Al Gore Announces for President
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler May 13, 2006 07:40am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, June 16, 1999 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | To my beloved family, to Tipper, to the people of Tennessee, and all of you: I see so many who have been my friends as far back as I can remember. You have always been there for me. And I begin this journey today to be there for you.
Two hundred years ago this summer, at the sunrise of America's first full century, veterans of the American Revolution came here and founded Smith County.
In their minds' eye, the very idea of what America could become was still then a barely discernible horizon. Yet they moved toward it, convinced of its fineness, certain the distance would yield a place better than they had ever known.
Each of us has our own sense of the next, finer horizon.
Near the beginning of this century, when my mother was a child in West Tennessee, a poor girl when poor girls were not supposed to dream, she looked out on a world where women could not even vote, and saw with her heart something better: a horizon of equality, where women, as well as men, could be and do their best.
I'm so glad she's here on this day... |
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