Article: Back on the Slippery Slope: The 'new' Gore loses some ground in New Hampshire.(National Affairs)(Brief Article)

The "new" Al Gore was in full flower last week for New Hampshire audiences. He listened, he shared, he offered his credentials as a regular guy, like his fondness for "The Simpsons" and his days in an Alabama trailer park. But the old Gore--the one with a penchant for embellishing the facts--still shows up. Describing his investigation of toxic-waste sites as a young House member in the late '70s, he said, "I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal." Gore did hold the first congressional hearings on the neighborhood near Niagara Falls that was ravaged by leakage from an old underground chemical dump. But Love Canal had been declared a disaster area two ...

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