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...legs stretched out in a restaurant booth, Gary Hart looked tired but pleased with himself. He had found private life for seven months unbearable, he said. Now he felt whole again. Nearby, his wife and son sat with half a dozen political volunteers. Hart leaned over the table to spoon some chicken noodle soup from a bowl...
Practicing law and giving lectures, Hart felt discredited and abandoned. He found it an ordeal, he confided, even to drive to work each Monday morning. "You go crazy," he said, "if you're trained to be a quarterback and then sit on the sidelines." Even the indignity of renewed personal scrutiny would be better than that. "Life holds no terrors for me anymore," he said...
...Hart, who has been on the lecture circuit, noticed that audiences rarely raised questions about his personal life. When they did, his pleas for a certain privacy usually set off loud applause. "People are not mean," he said in a grateful tone. "There's a goodness out there." The hostile questions came from journalists. "There's something wrong," he said, "when journalists ask one set of questions, and the public another...
...spoke, his hurt and anger became visible. "What is this need to destroy me?" he asked. For all his detachment, Hart remains vulnerable. He is determined not to speak about his personal life, but the subject is never far from his mind. He wants his reputation back. "Let's talk about character," he said. "I'm not an immoral man. I can't believe that even press people think I'm an immoral...
...Hart started to ask a question, but suddenly his lips began to tremble. He tried again, but no words came. Quickly his eyes filled with tears. He was overcome with emotion. He stared down at the table, and the tears ran down his cheeks. "I'm sorry," he said as he found his voice. "I don't like to do that." It was a rare show of emotion for the cool and distant Hart. Somewhat defensively, he pulled himself together. "I don't weep for myself," he said. "I weep for this country...