CBS reporter Rita Braver polished Gary Hart's apple fiercely. In 1988, Hart became the front runner “because of his visionary ideas.” Hart claimed “I saw as early as anyone else the shift of the economic base of America from manufacturing to information and technology.”
Braver added: “You actually worried that we were heading toward a war in the Persian Gulf that nobody was trying to defuse the situation especially vis a vis terrorism.” She said “Hart was considered brilliant, but also a bit aloof.”