A March 2013 episode of the “MTSU On the Record” radio program focused on the Carthage, Tenn., native who served two terms as vice president and won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Troy Gipson, an MTSU alumnus and author of “From Carthage to Oslo: A Biography of Al Gore,” first aired March 25, 2013, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org). You can listen to the program here.

Gipson, a Winchester, Tenn., native, met Gore in 1976 as Gore was campaigning for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Gipson says Gore inspired him to study political science at MTSU.

Vice President Al Gore, right, signs an invitation to the January 1997 inauguration in this December 1996 photo at the Nashville International Airport as MTSU alumnus Troy Gipson, left, and an unidentified woman look on. Gipson is the author of a 2012 book about Gore. (Photo courtesy of Troy Gipson)

While in college, Gipson served as an intern in Gore’s Washington office in 1981 and again from 1984 to 1985. Gipson graduated from MTSU with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1986.

From 1989 to 2009, Gipson worked as an internal auditor and property management specialist for the Boeing Company in Long Beach, Calif., and Huntsville, Ala.

He published the Gore book in 2012.

Gipson also is the co-founder of “Politics Profile,” an Internet politics and news blog for which he has written and published more than 50 articles.

To listen to previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to the “Audio Clips” archives here and here.

For more information about “MTSU On the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.