Word: hartness
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...vulnerable in the exercise of power. It could give power and influence to those who know. King was aware that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI were trying to record his affairs, but he was fundamentally defiant. He determined that he was not going to change his life. Hart's attitude is that same defiance. But Hart is being judged by standards that at least half our Presidents would fail. If this standard is going to be applied to Hart, do you apply it to everybody...
...investigate. It's what they are investigating. The public is entitled to know if he is a person who has good judgment, the right to know if he is smart, the right to know if he understands what's going on. If the Miami Herald had reported that Gary Hart had invited to his house a contra leader, then I'd be very angry, because he has taken a strong stand against the contras. I don't find the Donna Rice story relevant to the campaign...
...most loving of fathers and husbands have failed at governing. By the standards of the ideal husband, men like Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt might have been disqualified. What's really at issue with Hart? Not whether he's the perfect husband. It's whether or not the man is telling the ; truth. Voters need to be able to trust candidates and Presidents, not take comfort in their successful marriages. In the past, candidates didn't feel so obliged to drag wives and husbands and kids onto the platform. Now it's become obligatory. And sometimes it leads to great...
...past allegations of extramarital affairs had no impact on an Administration because the reporting didn't occur until the presidency was over. This may be the first time that this issue affects the course of the future. If the Hart episode reveals a sense of insulation, that he could take these kinds of risks and not worry about appearance, then that's worrisome. Because when Presidents get into the structure of the White House, they begin to feel above ordinary rules and believe they can take risks and not get caught...
...written about newspapermen, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur painted a sardonic portrait of hard-boiled, hardhearted journalists, but it was a picture tinged with affection for the profession's raffish charm. Last week, however, many people found nothing charming about the press's role in the collapse of Gary Hart's presidential candidacy. If no one actually peeped through keyholes, reporters were doing things that couldn't help looking a bit tawdry. A team of journalists staked out a man's home to discover who was spending the night there. A presidential candidate was asked, at point-blank range, whether...