European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Gary Hart with hit wife Lee whispering Campaign about Hia pass behaviour contributed to Hla downfall. Private lives and the press Sharp shift in How Public views leaders by  or. New York times behind Gary Hart s downfall Over his relationship wih a Florida Model and sometime actress lie Radical changes in How the american Public views is leaders and the Way the american press views its Job. A Quarter Century ago. Voters presumed their presidents and their senators to be honorable men Only very occasionally women who should be accorded the Benefit of the doubt and the privilege o privacy. Newspapers and television networks by and Large shared thai Outlook and rarely intruded into the private Liv of politicians. In Early 1963, for example a fledgling reporter for this newspaper was assigned to patrol the lobby of the Carlyle hotel while president Kennedy was visiting new York City. The reporter s Job was to observe the comings and goings of politicians but what he saw was the comings and goings of a prominent actress so that was what he reported to his editor. No Story there said the Detlor and the matter was dropped. The convention represented by that episode has obviously broken Down by staking out she Capitol Hill town House of Harl the former senator irom Colorado and by reporting thai the Model Donna Rice of Miami seemed to have spent he night Wilh him the Miami Herald not Only torpedoed Hart s political prospects bul also reopened a debate about journalistic ethics. The controversy Lorca Hart to drop Oul of the race after having been considered he front runner Lor Ine 1988 democratic presidential nomination. The Washington Post reported that Harl made his decision to step Down alter the paper presented his Stafi with documented evidence of a recent Liaison Between Hart and a washing Ion woman with whom he had had a Long term relationship. The Post quoted a Semor Hart aide As saying the Post s information accelerated the inevitable withdrawal. A Paradox appears to be at work Here at i to very time when american sexual mores have become More relaxed when promiscuity has become More commonplace than it was a few decades ago and in some circles More acceptable the press seems determined to hold preset Jenial candidates to a sterner Standard abandoning