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After the election in a prison where he resides in baltimore in the state penitentiary in maryland. lee atwater said to reporters, i'm going to make willie horton the most famous black man in america, because he had been released -- he had raped a woman in maryland and savaged her boyfriend. and they blamed governor dukakis' program. a program brought to massachusetts by a republican governor who took it from another republican governor, who was the first in the nation to have a weekend release program. that man's name was ronald reagan. and bush did -- i think what he did was, he didn't like ...

Able to retain that. but it was a transitional period, much more cataclysmic than transitional. it was an earthquake. >> sam, was it really a kindler, gentler time, the way sometimes are called. think about 1988, the bush campaig campaign,ly atwater, this horton ad tore down dukakis. it seemed george h.w. bush separated the two. was it really a kindler, gentler time? >> that's an interesting point. i think the ales/atwater combination in 1988 took politics to a terrible level that it had not been before -- politics has always been a terrible level in many respects, but they took it father. wil...