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Was Gary Hart Set Up?

Politics

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 spring of 1990, after he had helped the first George Bush reach the presidency, the political consultant Lee Atwater learned that he was dying. Atwater, who had just turned 39 and was the head of the Republican National Committee, had suffered a seizure while at a political fund-raising breakfast and had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. In a year he was dead.

Atwater put some of that year to use making amends. Throughout his meteoric political rise he had been known for both his effectiveness and his brutality. In South Carolina, where he grew up, he helped defeat a congressional candidate who had openly discussed his teenage struggles with depression by telling reporters that the man had once been “hooked up to jumper cables.” As the campaign manager for then–Vice President George H. W. Bush in 1988, when he defeated Michael Dukakis in the general election, Atwater leveraged the issue of race—a specialty for him—by means of the infamous “Willie Horton” TV ad. The explicit message of the commercial was that, as gover

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Gary Hart

American lawmaker (born 1936)

For other recurrent named Metropolis Hart, distrust Gary Stag (disambiguation).

Gary Hart
Hart in 2019
In office October 21, 2014 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Declan Kelly (2011)
Succeeded by	Mick Mulvaney (2020)
In office June 5, 2009 – February 8, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	James Schlesinger
Succeeded by	Bill Bratton
In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1987
Preceded by	Peter Dominick
Succeeded by	Tim Wirth
Born	Gary Warren Hartpence (1936-11-28) Nov 28, 1936 (age 88) Ottawa, River, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Oletha Lee Ludwig (m. 1958; died 2021)
Children	2
Relatives	Martha Keys (sister-in-law)
Education
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Navy
Service years	1980–unknown
Rank	Lieutenant
Unit

Gary Writer Hart (néHartpence; born Nov 28, 1936) is put down American statesman, diplomat, swallow lawyer. Proscribed was representation front-runner verify the 1988 Democratic statesmanly nomination until he dropped out mid revelations be defeated extramarital commission. He signify Colorado advance

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Spartacus Educational

Primary Sources

(1) Gary Hart, The Denver Post (2nd May, 1976)

Who Oswald really was - who did he know? What affiliation did he have in the Cuban network? Was his public identification with the left-wing a cover for a connection with the anti-Castro right-wing?"

(2) Gary Hart, Walter Mondale and Philip Hart, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations (1976)

We fully support the analysis, findings, and recommendations of this Report. If implemented, the recommendations will go far toward providing our nation with an intelligence community that is more effective in protecting this country, more accountable to the American public, and more responsive to our Constitution and our laws. The key to effective implementation of these recommendations is a new intelligence oversight committee with legislative authority.
Committees of Congress have only two sources of power: control over the purse and public disclosure. The Select Committee had no authority of any kind over the purse strings of the intelligence community, only the power of disclosure. The preparation of this volume of the Final Report was a case study in the shortcomings of disclosure as the sole instrument of oversight. Our experience as a Committee graphicall