I lived in Washington near Capital Hill for about a decade. That is no big deal to many, but to a Mississippi farm boy it was the Big Time. I worked in media and covered Congress, The White House, and many other types of chaos. I will share a little secret I learned about politics while I was there. It is really not all that glamorous at all (like you didn’t know that). In fact, they really are public servants and we are the boss. But I digress. Often they don’t know that.
In fact about 100% of the time they don’t know (or seem to care). If I had to write a job description for, let’s say, The President, (and I am not kidding here), it would be For hire, the most glamorous policy wonk within the beltway. Highly looked up to for signing a lot of papers that you don’t even have to read because they’ve all been read for you. Sad but true. But this story is about Al Gore and the Internet. A lot of mystery still revolves around the creation of the Super Highway. You can believe my story or not. But I can assure you it is the real thing and I got it straight from the horse’s mouth. And the horse was not Al Gore.
In 1969, a group...