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Gore Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics

At Harvard, a quiet Gore shied from activism

Gore's delicate and tense relationship with his own father, Segal has said, was palpable enough that even his casual friends noticed it.

"There's no question that his parents seemed to have had...some kind of idea [of a life in politics] for him from the beginning," Kapetan says.

When Gore did talk about his father, says Kapetan, it was usually in reference to the Senator's strong record on civil rights or his anti-war stance.

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Gore was "really proud" of his father, Kapetan says.

Al Gore, Upperclassman Roger Rosenblatt, then a junior professor of government, was a newly-minted senior tutor in Dunster House when Gore moved in.

While the House would later become a hotbed of campus radicalism, when Gore arrived to live there in the fall of 1966, it was still a staid, traditional Harvard house.

In the grand dining hall, recalls Rosenblatt, "believe it or not,

people did wear a jacket and tie."

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