Scenes from the Marriage of Al and Tipper Gore

In the Beginning
The son of a U.S. Senator, Albert Arnold Gore Jr. met Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson at the St. Albans School senior prom in Washington, D.C. The two hit it off and married at the Washington National Cathedral in 1970, shortly before he shipped off to Vietnam. They marked their 40th wedding anniversary on May 19, 2010.

• Al Gore's American Life