Long ago and far away — in 1987 and in New Hampshire, to be precise — a promising candidate for the White House was hounded out of the presidential campaign because he was seen in his townhouse with a 29-year-old woman. It was a political drama then, and it is a film drama now.
Gary Hart turned 82 Wednesday. His hair is gray, his walk no longer the confident stride of a man on the go or, his detractors would snicker, on the move — though we do not know today what we did not know then, which is whether he had an affair with Donna Rice.
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