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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore on Saturday remembered Ned McWherter, who served as Tennessee governor from 1987 to 1995, as a politician with a way of connecting with everyday people.
They attended a memorial service for McWherter, a self-made millionaire and a longtime state House speaker. He died Monday of cancer at the age of 80.
Gore, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee, said McWherter “always kept a connection to working people and the rural poor.”
Clinton called him a “fabulous politician” who “made us dream, and think and act.”
