Talk:Lee Atwater

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Later illness and death[edit]

I’ve read about him and saw how he was in his final days. He would apologize to many people, including Michael Dukakis for his “naked cruelty” during the 1988 campaign.[1]

While dying from a brain tumor, he repented and converted to Catholicism. Yet in the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (something which we should look into if it hasn’t been), Ed Rollins, a Republican consultant, stated (just what the Wikipedia article has): [Atwater] was telling this story about how a Living Bible was what was giving him faith and I said to Mary [Matalin], "I really, sincerely hope that he found peace". She said, "Ed, when we were cleaning up his things afterwards, the Bible was still wrapped in the cellophane and had never been taken out of the package", which just told you everything there was. He was spinning right to the end.

I’m also surprised there’s no mention of Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, given we have an article on him (granted Lee’s is short). Granted I haven’t looked much into that, but I feel like we should also look at the three together.

I might add it later myself.

SomeAutisticAce (talk) 12:38, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

  1. Going Positive, The New Yorker, 2008(retrieved on March 7 2025)