After Al Gore, Sr., the senator from Tennessee, lost reelection in 1972, he went to work for a coal power plant owned by Occidental Petroleum. “Since I had been turned out to pasture, I decided to go graze the tall grass,” Gore Sr. quipped, years later.64 As U.S. senator and vice president, Al Gore, Jr., helped advance the same company’s interests. Gore raised $50,000 from the company in phone calls he made from his office, triggering a minor scandal.
