I actually had a front row seat to the Gary Hart self-destruction. My wife and I were on our honeymoon and at a NYC hotel the day the scandal broke. Gary Hart did a press conference literally outside the hotel I was staying at. I remember us looking at the window down at Gary Hart with all the cameras on him and then having CNN on in the room and seeing the same scene on TV. We then went and saw CATS at the Winter Garden that night.
Was that where he told the press to go ahead and follow him?
Amazing how Gary Hart’s electoral career could be ended by one bimbo photo, yet Bill Clinton managed to brazen it out through so many endless scandals, lawsuits and perjuries, etc. etc. etc. Gary Hart must have looked at that Chutzpah and just shaken his head many times......