Article: Yale pols vanish in a Whiffenpoof of smoke

From the table down at Mory's to the place where Louie dwells, they're lamenting the collapse of Gary Hart's bid for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

As the folks in New Haven, Conn., are painfully aware, the unmaking of Gary Hart had less to do with the former Colorado senator's weekend fling with Donna Rice than it did with another political liability. Hart, a 1964 graduate of the Yale University Law School, is the latest victim of the Whiffenpoof syndrome.

The thing that George Bush probably fears most in his 1988 GOP presidential campaign isn't full disclosure of his role in the Irangate controversy. In the wake of Hart's sudden destruction, don't expect Bush to make a ...

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