Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before he returned to Washington and the confrontation with his running mate, McGovern stopped off in Aberdeen to address the South Dakota Democratic convention. Since he picked Eagleton, he said, "we have had some heart-rending days." He added: "I do not know how it will all come out, but I do know that it gets darkest just before the stars come out. I ask for your prayers and your patience for Senator Eagleton and me while we deliberate on the proper course ahead...
...health thing. He said, "Tom, there're some Governors in town. I'm going to use my time to maximum advantage to talk to them. We'll have our talk out there in the Black Hills." So the following Monday evening I go out to South Dakota, George called me on the phone, said: "Welcome. Could we have breakfast tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock? My cabin." We get there at 8. There are four of us-two wives and two candidates. George said, "Why don't we go over to the study to talk...
...plane. The Eagleton low point started when I got off the plane. There was a bank of microphones, a lot of reporters -more than I'd ever seen in my life. I had mistakenly assumed that once having answered all these questions in South Dakota, I did not have to answer them again. Then I did an awful local TV show. The reporter kept asking questions and I kept declining to answer-an atrocious performance. Afterward I realized I'll just have to answer the questions as many times as they're asked...
...year and a half of my time and money, and all of my heart and soul, and now here's a guy who comes in at the last minute and he is put on the ticket, I can see how a guy in the splendid isolation of South Dakota could feel that I should go. But I haven't been in South Dakota. I have been in Los Angeles and Honolulu and San Francisco, and I feel a different mood. Politics isn't a science like physics, where you put things in a beaker and measure them...
...near Washington, D.C., to protect the nation's decision-making center; and the other near the remote town of Grand Forks, N. Dak., to defend the retaliatory might of 150 Minuteman ICBMs targeted at the Soviet Union and China. Only the site in North Dakota is under construction. TIME Correspondent John Mulliken visited Grand Forks and sent this report...