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James Baker and Lee Atwater finished Vice President Bush's statement about the death of Michael Dukakis. That statement said "I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Governor Dukakis and I'll be praying for his family and I hope America does the same". Vice President Bush returned to his campaign headquarters after giving his statement. He felt ashamed that his campaign had been so dirty. "We destroyed that man" he thought to himself. He walked into Lee Atwater's office and told him "No more mud from now on we are running a clean campaign". Lee Atwater said "Of course Mr.Vice President". Atwater disagreed but deep down he conceded that attack ads on Lloyd Bentsen would be in bad taste. He decided that he would need to highlight Bush's stances on abortion and the ERA in order to paint Bentsen as liberal with out attacking him.