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...Clinton's denials stick, what might the voters' reaction be? On the night before Gary Hart's 1987 withdrawal from the Democratic race, a TIME poll found that by a ratio of roughly 10 to 1, people were more troubled by Hart's lying than by his extramarital relations. How many people would reject Clinton if he were seen as telling the hard truth is anyone's guess. Some, perhaps too many for Clinton's sake, will apply a double standard that forgives adultery generally but still determines that a President is a role model from whom perfection should...
...months before Gary Hart challenged the moralistic conventions of political behavior and paid the price for his apostasy, he wrote a mini- autobiography designed, apparently, to portray himself as normal. The last paragraph read: "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with.' As usual," Hart concluded, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Thus, in his own words, the fallen candidate's political epitaph: Gary Hart -- fool...
...With his performance on 60 Minutes Clinton may avoid Hart's fate, but he well knows the perils that would attend any further allegations of womanizing. As Clinton himself told TIME before the first Star story appeared, "The problem with peripheral stuff is that it can cause people to erase you from their minds. It's a way of their not having to make a firm judgment. They've got other candidates to consider, and it's easy for them to say, 'I don't know what to make of Clinton, so I'll look elsewhere.' If they say that...
...Powers, Irene Ramp, Ina Saltz, John F. White (Associate Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth B. Smith (Assistant Art Directors); David Drapkin, Leah M. Purcell (Designers); John P. Dowd (Traffic) Maps and Charts: Joe Lertola (Associate Graphics Director); Paul J. Pugliese (Chief of Cartography); Leslie Dickstein, Steven D. Hart, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells Administration: Carrie A. Zimmerman...
...Clinton story raises the old questions about the "character issue" and the relevance of the sex lives of politicians. It is an issue that rounds up the usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...