My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

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.