The Nation - News from Oct. 5, 1987

Sen. Albert Gore Jr. exaggerated the impact of his work as a journalist in an interview published in the Des Moines Register, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. The Tennessee Democrat and presidential candidate told the Iowa paper that he “got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail” in the 1970s, but the Memphis paper said only two indictments resulted from Gore’s articles about alleged corruption in Nashville. Gore, in a telephone interview from Winston-Salem, N. C., apologized for what he called “a careless statement that was unintentional . . . but an honest mistake.” After Gore wrote about the Nashville Metro Council, Councilman Morris Haddox was indicted on bribery charges but was acquitted in 1976. Councilman Jack Clariday, also charged in a bribery, was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison but was granted probation and never served time.