Beliefs and values. Everyone knows hart plays around. I love my husband very much. The story was the journalistic equivalent of an abomb. Its about sex and power. Who was this woman and what was his relationship with her . I do not have to answer that question. He went from being an icon to being a joke. America in the late 1970s was still emerging from vietnam and suffering through a hostage crisis in iran. The country was in the mood for change. We were post watergate, post vietnam, the public had become skeptical of its leaders. There was a great deal of questions about character and trust in character. Look at what nixon had shown us, Lyndon Johnson had shown us. Ins incessant lying about vietnam had took a toll on us. We were a more cynical country. Out of a fog of mistrust emerged a brave new voice. Our Public Servants have to be charged with a higher duty than merely staying out of jail. They must attempt as much as humanly possible, to embody the highest values of this nations society. Gary hart was the original new democrat. His slogan was new ideas for a new generation. People believed in gary hart and they were willing to sacrifice for him and the greater good. Gary hart started his climb in 1971 when senator George Mcgovern tapped the yale lawyer to run his campaign against incumbent richard nixon. He represented a new generation of hip, smart and ambitious young democrats. He was going to go out and upset the conventional rules. We have the votes in california. We want the challenge to be brought up tonight. Were prepared to stay here all night to get it brought up. Even though mcgovern didnt win it put gary in the limelight and he was a National Figure and really on the move. Married since 1958, gary and lee hart were attractive political partners. But it was gary who radiated a certain quality not seen on the National Political stage since john kennedy. He was very good looking and had sort of a chiselled face, and he had an antiwashington aura about him. He was from colorado. So there was this kind of cowboy mystique. He was a hot shot. Women just swooned over him. And he returned the favor. I mean, he looked at them lustingly. Hes hanging out with all the cool journalists and movie stars. He gets to know warren beaty very well. And what does he do, he invites him to the his pool where he sits around with topless starlets. Hart must have thought he fell into nirvana. Sally quinn in a 1972 Washington Post profile revealed that the hot new political profile had a less than enlightened view of women in the workplace. There was a moment i did ask him why there werent any more women on mcgoverns staff he said theyre just not as good as men. Anyone said that today, theyd be fired. In 1974, with the nation reeling from the watergate scandal, hart ran for the United States senate. Winning easily with 57 of the vote. Hart understands when it comes to washington as a newly elected senator in 1975 that he will be seen as the longhair leftist campaign manager, and he doesnt want that. He soon landed a much coveted seat on the senate arms committee. He was series minded and the military, it made it his specialty. The arms issues is a new issue. And were trying to address the agenda of today and tomorrow not the past. Hes thinking about the coming together of terrorist groups long before people are talking about terrorism. What people saw in gary hart was the emergence of something different. A new kind of democrat. Something different than the Hubert Humphrey version of the Democratic Party. Something new, younger and vigorous. While many found hart refreshing and charismatic, others sensed something untold behind the persona. People talked to him and couldnt quite fully understand what made him run, what made him tick. To washington insiders, however, there was nothing mysterious about gary hart. 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Welcome to the party. I have a vision of america in the 80s thats much, much different from Ronald Reagans vision. By 1984, gary hart was eager to challenge president Ronald Reagan, whose first term had been marred by double digit unemployment and the bombing of the Marine Barracks in beirut which took 241 lives. For people scared of where the Democratic Party was going and where Ronald Reagan was taking us, we needed new energy and somebody who could pull things in a different way. There was a generational change that was occurring anyway and hart was there to be the carrier of the champion for a new generation. Im glad youre all here because i have an announcement that i want to share with you. I am a candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1984. He said, lets do it. We have no money, we have no pollsters, we have no tv adds, were zero in the polls. Lets do it. There was no money coming in. We were existing on fumes. We had a Campaign Headquarters on capitol hill that used to be a porn warehouse. Besides bare coffers, hart faced a daunting field of luminaries. John glen, Jesse Jackson and former Vice PresidentWalter Mondale. We need a president who will make the number one domestic priority of the country to create in the 1980s the best education and Training System in the world. Hart kicked off the campaign with an impressive barrage of new policy ideas that ranged across a wide spectrum. He said, im the peoples representative. I dont represent the smokefilled rooms, i dont represent the past. Im the future. Im younger and im going to change not just my party, but the country. On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, hart earned respect from some older voters by demonstrating he was more than just a policy wonk with a pretty face. He put the red suspenders on, did a little like this, and immediately walked over and picked up an ax. We were like scared to death he was going to kill somebody. And he winds up and he throws the ax, bang, hits the target dead center. He said, that was the luckiest thing ive ever done. Of course, it became the picture for about 48 hours and it seemed to be a Lightning Strike for him that everything was going to go his way. What do you thinks going to happen tomorrow . Were number one. A major upset appears to be taking shape in the New Hampshire president ial primary. It appears tonight that senator gary hart is on his way to a clear cut victory over Walter Mondale. I look forward to a vigorous debate about this partys future. Now, okay, theres an alternative to Walter Mondale its one of the biggest upsets in american politics at that point. In the contrast, its so stark. Theres less than 10 years difference in their age, they looked 30 years apart. The mondale people responding to his shocking loss in new ha ha ha hampshire naturally went on the attack. The assault began at a president ial debate in march of 1984. Let me describe your positions. Mr. Mondales hopes for a quick and decisive lead in this hasnt been fulfilled and i believe i heard him use the word clobbered to describe one of his defeats. Mr. Hart has done well, hes presented himself with a man for the idea of the future. But they say hes a man with no substance. Well, onto the substance, ladies and gentlemen. Mondale stole a page from harts newage script to land a telling blow. I think the dedication of the Democratic Party to minority people in the south and elsewhere shouldnt just be jobs when i hear there are specific ways to do that. When i hear your new ideas, im reminded of that ad, wheres the beef. Wheres the beef. Some hamburger places give you less beef on a lot of bun. Wheres the beef. There was an ad popular on tv where a little old lady, a grandma, says, hey, wheres the beef. Wheres the beef . I dont think theres anybody out there. They echo this ad and that ad hits this touch point about hart that theres no there there. Heres the guy offering the most new ideas across the board in 20, 30 different ways, spelled them out in books and articles, and editorials and journals. It was like calling the sun the moon and getting away with it. The attack continued by stoking a traditional and far more ominous fear. The most awesome powerful responsibility in the world lies in the hand that picks up this phone. The mondale people decided to question whether we really knew who gary hart was, and placed that kind of doubt in the minds of the voter. And they did it with some ads that went to the heart of who is this man. The idea of an unsure, unsteady, untested hand, is something to really think about. Do we really know who he is . Have we really looked at him . Who is gary hart . Would you be happy to be runner up . Not at all. Im going to win. With his National Stature elevated by his upset of Walter Mondale in New Hampshire, gary hart began to come under closer media scrutiny. As reporters then started to delve more deeply into his biology, his background, they discovered inconsistencies that on the face of it didnt amount to much. But they did add to the narrative that gary hart was in a fight from his past. He gets upset when people use the gatsby analogy for him. But he likes to foster a certain air of mystery. His signature changed a number of times over the course of his adulthood. There was a big fuss about him changing his name. He fudged his age for some reason. Whats implied by a man who changes his name and begins to fudge with personal details . Its odd. And odd isnt good. The democrats have now chosen their team. Mondale and ferraro and theyre ready to move on to the main event. Although hart eventually lost to mondale. He was greeted with a winners ovation at the Democratic Convention in san francisco. Id like to introduce senator gary hart. Gary gary i see an america too young to quit, too courageous to turn back and an america with dreams that will not die. This is one hart you will not leave in san francisco. He goes to that convention with over a thousand delegates. That point forward once mondale gets crushed by reagan in the election, its there for gary hart. Hes Still Standing and hes the future. Encouraged by his showing in the 84 primary. He decided not to seek a third term in the senate and spent his last term preparing for a president ial bid. I think he had an almost divine sense that he was the man for the moment. He had a sense of destiny. Much of america seemed to agree. In the early polls of 1984 he led al gore and joe biden and was 13 points ahead of his republican opponent, Vice President george h. W. Bush. Hart is about as close to a lock for the democratic nomination as youre going to get, and a pretty good bet for the presidency. I intend to be a candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1988, and i do so for one single reason. That is because i love my country. Gary hart starts outdoors in the colorado mountains to announce, okay, the young man from the mountains is coming. He saw symbolically red rocks a kind of signal to the country. He was not going to go in some ballroom and stand before a microphone. He was a new kind of candidate. This election in 1988 is not a question of whether our country should move left or right. Its an issue of recapturing our basic principles and beliefs and values. With the irancontra hearings wracking the white house, people were calling for Ronald Reagans impeachment. He said among other things that he wanted to return honor and integrity to the office of the presidency and that he expected to be held to the highest standards in the campaign. But even as hart pledged himself to the highest standards, a drum beat of rumored affairs was gathering in the press. So you have him announcing for president and a lot of coverage right at the time of the announcement raised, quote, the womanizing problem. On the same day hart announced his candidacy, the rumors about his personal life went mainstream when a story by Howard Feinman appears in newsweek magazine. Howard interviewed a number of people and quoted a person anonymously saying gary hart is going to get this nomination unless he cant keep his zipper up. So people went to him, close to him, and said, gary, you cant play by the rules, whatever they were, that you played by before. He said, no, no. I get it. The question of your marital fidelity, legitimate . I guess so, but theres no more question there where im concerned than anyone else. I think he just said, listen, eisenhower did this, Lyndon Johnson did this, roosevelt did this, jack kennedy did this. It may dent me a bit, but its not going to be enough to ruin my chances. If you look at jack kennedy, most people knew that he was having affairs all the time. But it just wasnt written. And so, i think that gary was operating on the theory that that was the way things were, and that that would hold, that he could basically do what he wanted to do and nobody would write about it. Gary hart did not recognize that there were now women on the campaign planes and reporting and that whole kind of male secrecy bond that extended from jfk to ben bradley, the Washington Post, to many other politicians, was broken by women reporters. The nature of the Washington Press corps changed. It became more feminist, more sensitive, more caring about these issues. In the spring of 87, at the urging of his staff. Hart agreed to be interviewed by e. J. Deon of the new york times. I asked him a general question that was specific enough. And thats when he came out with the follow me around, youll be bored line. Part of me thought he was actually sending a very clear signal that at least for the duration of the campaign he was going to lead a traditional married life. Thanks very much how you all doing . The other part of me was startled that if he had not made that decision, this was a very dangerous thing to say. Suggestive stories continued to appear in the national press. Some noting that hart and his wife lee had separated twice. Tom fiedler of the miami herald objected to the reporting. My column was essentially saying this is not good journalism. This is troublesome when we are focussing so much of our attention on what is an unsubstantiated claim. The same day the column appeared he got a call in his office. The phone rang. I picked it up. It was a woman on the other end. She didnt identify herself. She asked, did you write that column in the paper this morning about gary hart . I said, yes i did. She essentially said, youre an idiot. That gary hart is having an affair with one of my best friends. She also told me that senator hart had gone off on a boat trip to bimini with her friend. The bimini trip was an overnighter on a yacht called monkey business. I was beginning to think theres some things here that i can actually trace. Fiedler pushed the caller for more tangible information. I said, why should i trust what youre telling me if you wont give me your name or other ways to verify what youre telling me . She said, i know how you can meet my friend. Shes going to washington d. C. This weekend, and shes going to fly up on friday to spend the weekend with senator hart at his townhouse in washington d. C. They appear out of nowhere. My secret visitors. Hallucinations and delusions. The unknown parts of living with parkinsons. What plots they unfold, but only in my mind. Over 50 of people with parkinsons will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. 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