Following his defeat, he was succeeded by Democrat Bill Clinton, who won the 1992 presidential election. International affairs drove the Bush presidency, which navigated the end of the Cold War and a new era of U.S.–Soviet relations. Under the direction of strategist Lee Atwater, the Bush campaign attacked Dukakis as an unpatriotic liberal extremist. The campaign seized on Willie Horton, a convicted felon from Massachusetts who had raped a woman while on a prison furlough; the Bush campaign charged that Dukakis presided over a 'revolving door' that allowed dangerous convicted felons to leave prison.