"Was Gary Hart Set Up?" (death, Maine, President)

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And did any of you see last year's movie, "The Front Runner"?


Was Gary Hart Set Up?
What are we to make of the deathbed confession of the political operative Lee Atwater, newly revealed, that he staged the events that brought down the Democratic candidate in 1987?
By James Fallows

In the last year of his life, Atwater publicly apologized for tactics like these. He told Tom Turnipseed, the object of his “jumper cables” attack, that he viewed the episode as “one of the low points” of his career. He apologized to Dukakis for the “naked cruelty” of the Willie Horton ad. And in a private act of repentance that has remained private for nearly three decades, he told Raymond Strother that he was sorry for how he had torpedoed Gary Hart’s chances of becoming president.


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...set-up/570802/

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Without reading article, I recall well when Mr. Hart invited the press to follow him about.



They did.



Monkey Business was the result.



No, Mr. Hart, at least from my memory, shot himself in the foot due to his arrogance.



I will read the Atlantic article later.

[skeddy]

sexist womanizer, I think we all got the story.