and when our first daughter karenna was born, i began to see the future through a fresh set of eyes.now a lot of you have had that feeling, too. and i decided i could not turn away from service at home anymore than i could have turned away from service in vietnam. that is why i ran for congress. in my first term, a family in hardeman county, tennessee wrote a letter and told how worried they were that toxic waste, a lot of it, had been dumped near their home. i held some of the first hearings on the issue and ever , since, i've been there in the fight against the big polluters. our children should not have to draw the breath of life in cities awash in pollution. [applause] mr. gore: when they come in from playing on a hot summer afternoon, every child in america, anywhere in america, ought to be able to turn on the faucet and get a glass of safe, clean drinking water. [applause] on the issue of the environment, i've never given up, i've never backed down, and i never will. [applause] mr. gore: and i say it again tonight we must reverse the , silent, rising tide of global warming. and

to acknowledge with great pride, our four children: kristin, sarah and albert, our oldest daughter karennand her husband drew, and the youngest member of our family, who a little over a year ago was born on the fourth of july, our grandson wyatt, and my brother-in-law frank hunger. [applause] i am honored tonight by the support of a leader of high ideals and fundamental decency who will be an important part of our country's future, senator bill bradley. [applause] thank you, bill. [applause] thank you, bill, for your focus on campaign finance reform and civil rights and ending child poverty. there's someone else who will shape that future, a leader of character and courage, a defender of the environment and working families, the next vice president of the united states of america, joe lieberman. [applause] "joe"]ng and hadassah and their wonderful family. [applause] i picked joe for one simple reason: he's the best person for the job. for almost eight years now, i've been the partner of a leader who moved us out of the valley of recession and into the longest period of prosperity in americ

our oldest daughter karenna and her husband drew.nd the youngest member of our family, who a little over a year ago was born on the fourth of july, our grandson wyatt. i am honored tonight by the support of a leader of high ideals and fundamental decency, who will be an important part of our country's future, senator bill bradley. [applause] mr. gore: thank you, bill. for your, bill campaign-finance reform, civil rights, and it into poverty. there is someone else will shape that future, a leader of character and courage. a defender of the environment and working families. the next vice president of the united states, joe lieberman. [applause] mr. gore: and they are wonderful family. -- and their food wonderful wonderful family. i picked him for one simple reason -- he is the best person for the job. for almost eight years now, i've been the partner of a leader who moved us out of the valley of recession and into the longest period of prosperity in american history. i say you -- i say to you tonight millions of americans , will live b

this is a question from karenna ike, which i love. what is the best way or other -- all the ways that we as historians and also humanists generally can inform policies about public health? kind of a tall order, but if you want to just share your thoughts. >> i mean, i actually try to think about this a lot. both in a pandemic moment like this and, you know, i've written a handful of op-eds for our newspaper in charleston, and conte contextualize and i had a piece that aired on cnn last week. and i think one of the things that historians and humanists more broadly can do is try to use our expertise to sort of complicate some of the big narratives. the narratives of scientific progress, the narratives of we have this progress, right, there's this idea out there, i think, in the broader society that, you know, this sort of work like this in the past and it can work like this now that there's this unsolvable mystery, right? diseases often get likened to these mystery stories to where there's this problem. it's the right know-how to get fi