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A GOOD REPUTATION, | Ye RECOMMENDS GORE FOR a PO ION OF TRUST WITH THE GO NME NT. JAMES NEELY, COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, STATE OF TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE, ADVISED HE FIRST MET GORE IN 1950.. OVER THE YEARS HE HAS KNOWN GORE AND Has LEARNED NOTHING HE CONSIDERS DEROGATORY, HE HAS HEARD PEOPLE SAY THAT GORE, ; _WHILE A SENATOR, ” FORGOT WHERE HE CAME FROM.” THIS COMMENT STARTED WHEN GORE BECAME QUITE PROMINENT IN WASHI NATO N AND PEOPLE IN TENNESSEE FELT HE waS TOO INVOL VED IN WASHINGTON POLITICS, HE ADVISED HE HOLDS GORE IN HIGH ESTEEM AND HAS A LOT OF RESPECT FOR HIM, HE KNOWS OF NO VICES AND HAD THERE BEEN ANY HE FEELS SURE HIS OPPONENT WOULD HAVE BROUGHT THEM OUT WHEN GORE WAS DEFEATED. HE HIGHLY RECOMMENDS FOR A POSITION oF TRUST WITH THE GOVERNMENT. , MRS. CLEO HUGHES, LIBRARIAN, TENNESSEE ARCHIVES, : NASHVILLE, ADVISED ‘HER RECORDS SHOW THAT GORE was COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FROM JANUARY, 1936, THROUGH DECEMBER, 1937, SHE HAD NO OTHER INFORMATION WHICH SHE FELT WOULD BE PERTINENT.