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About wrongs he had committed in his career, on his death bed he confesses he concocted this whole plot, he tells his counterpart from the 1988 campaign, this man mr. strugter who worked on the heart campaign tells him he did it. but raymond strother doesn't pass this information on himself for another couple of decades. >> right. i think it is important to recognize, this is all in the realm of contingent history. one of the reasons that raymond strother didn't tell his close friend, the person he worked for gary hart back in 1991 when the dying lee atwater spoke with him, he realized there w...

>> well, either way, it leaves a strange i am plausibility. i talked with raymond hart in the last cup many months in reporting the story. and hart said there had always been part of him that thought this was too strange and convenient not to have been a pre-planned thing. the way that billy broad hearst brought him the one vote and suddenly that vote wasn't available so they had to go to this other vote called the monkey business. they went to bemeny, then they forgot to check with the customs officials and couldn't leave, had to stay overnight. hart said he was sitting on a piling with a big...

I wanted to ask you if i got it right. first of all, i have to tell you that i don't -- i am not familiar with the name raymond struther who was a key player in your account. i'm not even sure if i'm saying his name right. am i? >> i think since you're of tender years you would not have been around in the hart campaign. there is no exact counterpart. if there were a -- if you could think of some benign version of steve bannon, that would be the kind of -- somebody who has prominent in the campaign, and he's somebody i had covered hart in the days when he was a leading military affairs expert. ...

His death bed that he orchestrated that whole supposed scandal to set up gary hart so that george bush wouldn't have to run against him for president in 1988. really? joining us now is james fallows, national correspondent for "the atlantic," who broke the story. thank you so much for helping us break this tonight. congratulations. >> thanks for your extremely clear and helpful setup to this story. i've learned a lot these last few minutes. >> well, thank you. i wanted to ask you if i got it right. first of all, i have to tell you that i don't -- i am not familiar with the name raymond strothe...

To fix our homeless crisis. with more affordable housing... expanded mental-health services... clean restrooms and safe shelters. vote "yes" on c. it helps all of us. history bombshell, my favorite kind. james reports in "the atlantic" magazine tonight that the famous supposed sex scandal that ended the presidential campaign of democratic senator gary hart in 1988, james reports 30 years down the road from that scandal tonight, that gary hart's supposed affair and the photographic evidence that that supposed affair, that in fact ended his presidential aspirations. james fallows writes in "th...