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...watching from the sidelines as his partybegan to prepare for the 1988 presidentialelections, Thornburgh could not resist as he sawGary Hart's candidacy self-destruct in a week andVice-President George Bush fail to do well at thepolls. In June, Thornburgh gave his approval toaides' urgings that he at least consider a run forthe Republican nomination...
...Senator Joe Biden came across as the boldest in poking at the others, but he tempered his remarks with deft jokes on himself. "I'm officially 6 ft. 8 in.," said the candidate accused of lacking substance. Pause. "Unfortunately I'm standing on my record." Even the departed Gary Hart was not spared. Instead of the Seven Dwarfs as a designation for the field, Biden noted, the seven deadly sins might be better. "I've got six of them covered -- greed, envy, anger, avarice, gluttony and sloth." Pause. "We've got an opening for lust...
Regarding the controversy over whether the press and voters should concern themselves with the alleged sexual or other moral misconduct of leaders like Senator Gary Hart ((PRESS, June 8)), I offer this quote from John Adams' Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765): "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have . . . an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers...
What may unsettle the candidates more than the Times's request are the truly personal questions since Hart's fall. The Cleveland Plain Dealer cited Ohio Governor Richard Celeste's denials of a "Hart-type personal problem" as justification for its story about his alleged affairs. In a LIFE interview, Jesse Jackson's wife warned that her husband's fidelity was nobody's business. Said she: "I don't believe in examining sheets." Nonetheless, candidates who prefer to devote their time offering visions of the future are likely to spend much of the present talking about themselves, their character...
...Americans would concern themselves more with morality and worry less about the sexual behavior of their politicians, they would impeach Reagan for the Iran-contra arms sale and forgive Gary Hart his venial sins...