Stand Up and Be Counted Through the History of Her Family and Her Own Experience Tipper Gore Knows the Reality of Depression, but has Never Been Ashamed of Being a Sufferer. Now She Is Helping Others to Fight the Stigma. By Ruth Wishart

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SHE never did much care for the "second lady" tag, says Tipper Gore. If the job of vice president of America is, according to one legendary definition, "not worth a bucket of warm piss", then the role of his spouse is unlikely to carry much in the way of clout.

Yet during the White House years, the wife of the man who famously lost the 2000 US election to George W Bush decided that what she did have was profile and that she could use it to push some favourite causes up the national agenda.

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Stand Up and Be Counted Through the History of Her Family and Her Own Experience Tipper Gore Knows the Reality of Depression, but has Never Been Ashamed of Being a Sufferer. Now She Is Helping Others to Fight the Stigma. By Ruth Wishart

One of these was very close to home. "When I was nine my father left home and my mother took us to live with my grandmother, " Gore explains.

"In the next few years my mother had serious bouts of depression and when she was ill she would lose whatever job she...

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