gary hart jerusalem

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Colorado U.S. Senator Gary Hart visits the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Jerusalem campus in July, 1986. At this time, the thoughtful, ambitious liberal Democrat was the favorite to win his party`s presidential nomination for president in 1988. His hopes subsequently went up in smoke with a sexual infidelity scandal, and he left politics shortly thereafter.