It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

B. In the film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story Robert Novak reveals for the first time that Atwater personally tried to get him to spread these mental-health rumors. Part of the interview was printed in Lamis's book The Two-Party South then reprinted in Southern Politics in the 1990s with Atwater's name revealed.

W. S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.