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Whoracle, please don't fall for this bit of urban legend. Gore never claimed any such thing. He was asked in an interview, as a candidate for President, to provide a spur of the moment list of his accomplishments. He told the exact truth, if perhaps failing to define 'Internet' as the modern, WWW Internet that the 95% of Americans who are not computer geeks understand it.
Here's what Vinton Cert and Robert Kahn, the "Fathers of the Internet", said about Al Gore's contribution... --"Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.
No one person or even small group of persons exclusively “invented” the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore’s contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.."--
You can read the link for a comprehensive list of how Gore, during his years of "service in the United States Congress... took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
Heck,.given that so many Clinton opponents claim that the Clinton economic boom had more to do with the explosion of the dot.com industry (dot.com being Internet based businesses), then we should actually be calling it the Al Gore boom. 
While I agree that Technosoul has given us a rather short list of candidates, it just happens that one of them matches my personal "wish list".
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Nice post.
These are pretty much the facts as I understood them as well. Al got a bad rap on that vague quote, but he had a few other slip ups that helped the media portray him in a bad light about that. ( Remember, his sister was "the first Peace Corp. volunteer", or the "I live on a farm" quotes? )
Why don't you fire off a letter to local paper about the facts behind the economic turnaround. It would be interesting to see if the media picked up on the subtle irony in labeling it the Clinton Boom.
Might just help your boy gain a little influence just befor election time.