America 1982-Chapter 579 - 124: Shooting Oneself_2

Jewish representatives in the United States discovered that the President had accepted money without fulfilling his promises and went to question him only to be told by the First Lady that it was Hurl who had stopped the rescue. Consequently, American Jews filed a complaint against the State Department for its discriminatory and indirect involvement in the massacre of Jews. Learning that American Jews dared to trouble him, Hurl’s response was swift. He issued a decree to all American consulates worldwide, prohibiting the issuance of visas to Jews. Moreover, a previous consideration to accept over twenty thousand Jewish children from Europe into the United States turned abruptly into a cold impossibility. Concurrently, a significant number of harassment incidents against Jews erupted in the Southern United States. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

This series of actions meant that during the years before Hurl resigned due to illness from 1939 to 1945, Jews in America had acquired the good habit of silence, no longer daring to speak out against the government’s discrimination.

What shocked the Jewish community even more was their discovery that Hurl’s wife was actually a beautiful Austrian Jewish widow. Marrying a Jewish wife and sending Jews to their deaths were not contradictory actions in Hurl’s view.

There were rumors that some Jews couldn’t accept this truth and approached a journalist to pretend to interview Hurl after he had retired due to illness. They asked why he had such a disdain for Jews yet married a Jewish wife. Hurl’s reply was said to be quintessentially American, "I just didn’t want to have children that would divide my affection for my friends’ children, not that I lack sexual desire."

The year Hurl retired, despite all federal officials and even Western elites knowing full well that Hurl was a Ku Klux Klan member and a white supremacist, they unanimously recommended him to the Nobel Committee, which ultimately decided to award him the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts towards peace in the Western Hemisphere.

In the hearts of many former and surviving members of this fraternity, Cordell Hurl was seen as an omnipotent godlike figure who could coldly watch Jews being led to slaughter, tell African Americans to their faces to implement segregation, and had everyone know he was a white supremacist, yet still had to reluctantly heap all praise upon him, asserting that his massacres and racial discrimination were wholly deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Before and after him, the fraternity could never again find a brother with such influence.

This adopted clan leader of the Gore family took old Albert under his wing as if he were his own son and molded him into a second version of himself: rational, ruthless, white supremacist. His resume appeared as though it were copied and pasted — joining the Democratic Party in college, earning dual degrees in politics and law, starting off as an attorney, becoming a member of the House of Representatives, serving in the military as a Congressman during World War II, observing and participating in combats in the frontline, completing reports for Congress, acting as a Military Governor Prosecutor during the occupation of Germany by Allied forces, and after discharge, continuing his election as a Congressman, looking every bit like a bright new star in the political arena.

According to Hurl’s plan, old Gore should have had the capabilities to run for President by the mid-1950s, but unfortunately, due to Hurl’s later stage tuberculosis and frequent hospitalizations, he could no longer provide guidance to old Gore, who also failed a crucial test. Having participated in World War II and witnessed the battlegrounds, he presumed he understood war. In a 1951 Congressional hearing against the Pentagon, old Gore accused United States Military generals of making excuses for poor performance in the Korean War, suggesting it was the military’s way of extorting Congress for funds. He questioned how North Korea and Chinese volunteers could resist the United States Military, and if it came down to it, proposed using nuclear weapons to create a radiation zone to sever the enemy’s supply lines, essentially bisecting the Korean Peninsula and surrounding those soldiers who were cut off.

The United States Military dismissed this speech as the ramblings of a warmonger, and without much reply, stated that old Gore hadn’t been to the Korean battlefield, didn’t understand the conditions or the enemy’s will to resist, and consequently placed old Gore on their most disliked Congressional blacklist. This alienated old Gore from the Pentagon and dashed his Presidential ambitions since the Democratic Party would never choose a candidate whom the Pentagon despised, as that would essentially be handing an advantage over to the Republicans.

Nevertheless, despite losing the chance to run for President, old Gore still held his Senate seat for nearly two decades, solidifying his family’s influence in Tennessee, until his son, Al Gore, grew up and qualified to take over his political legacy.

Al Gore, a third-generation senator vigorously supported by Tommy, also had a godfather, the owner of Western Petroleum Company, the legendary American businessman Armand Hammer. Hammer had been a financier for old Gore, providing substantial financial support and even allowing old Gore to join his company as a board director and vice president after his Senate defeat in the 70s. In return, most of Western Petroleum Company’s pollution-heavy coal and fertilizer plants ended up in Tennessee under old Gore’s management. From the 1960s to the 1980s, no matter how many Tennessee water sources turned black with coal and fertilizer wastewater, the company never ran into trouble with environmental regulators. When local residents attempted to hire environmental firms to test the pollution on their own, they would be driven out of Tennessee on various legal pretexts before any testing could begin, effectively silenced. Such was old Gore’s influence in Tennessee, and as a Senator, he never brought up the state’s pollution issues in Congress, which meant Congress was almost entirely unaware of Tennessee’s pollution situation.