Michael Dukakis, Gary Hart, and Dick Gephardt share their thoughts and recollections about their old primary opponent with gdebenedetti
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photos: Getty Images The summer treated Joe Biden well. He wasn’t quite the center of attention, but bouncing among D.C., Delaware, and whatever states would have him, he was making progress with weary Americans. The year was 1987, and Biden — 44 years old but already in his third term in the Senate — was running for president for the first time.
Gary Hart: In the mid- and late-’80s, when I was a candidate in ’84 and began to be in ’88, I talked about four revolutions. The first was globalization. That sounds pretty obvious now, but back in those days, the early ’80s particularly, it was a new phenomenon that no one — or very few people — understood.
Gephardt: We’ve had this kind of bias against people who’ve been in public service. It’s just crazy. I used to say to people, “If you’re going to get your brain operated on, you’d probably ask if they’d done this kind of thing before. If you’re going to get on a plane, you want to know the pilot has flown before.” Being president is harder.
Gephardt: The atmosphere today is much worse. I mean not just a little worse. I’ve never seen polarization like this, which is really crippling to democracy. The only way to deal with it is to fight back against it and pull people together and get things done. Hart: I have not. My wife of 63 years tragically passed away recently, and I was told he was going to try to contact me, but I have not yet heard from him.
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