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...floor leaders, each responsible for several states, had a principal deputy in every state delegation. Moreover they were linked by telephone to McGovern's communications trailer, parked outside the convention hall, and to the candidate's "boiler room" at the Doral Hotel. McGovern Aide Rick Stearns briefed all the McGovern delegates for two hours before the convention, then spent another two hours instructing his 250 whips?one for every six McGovern delegates. Said Stearns: "We feared procedural chicanery...
McGovern remained ensconced in his suite at the Doral, surrounded by his five children, two sons-in-law and two grandsons. Assorted other sisters, a brother-in-law, aunts, nieces and nephews were scattered around the hotel?...
...knocked him off his stride." As McGovern monitored the battle on TV, he sat shoeless and tieless on a couch eating a T-bone steak and ice cream, and occasionally fondling his month-old baby grandson Matthew. At 3 that morning, Eleanor McGovern drove back to the Doral from the convention center; when she got there, she found that the candidate had gone to sleep...
...afternoon before the nomination, some 300 protesters appeared in the lobby of the Doral. They were incensed by a McGovern statement the night before to a group of P.O.W. wives. He had said that he would "retain the military capability in the region?in Thailand and on the seas?to signal and fulfill" his resolve to win the release of the prisoners. It was a curious inconsistency in McGovern's war position, an apparent apostasy from his vows of complete withdrawal. The protesters angrily called him on it, and McGovern explained that he would close U.S. bases in Thailand...
...invitation to "Have Your Next Affair Here," past the ubiquitous Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, past the Eden Roc Hotel with its plaster version of the Winged Victory of Samothrace crated for protection against radicals and art vandals. After the turn up Collins Avenue, the road ends at the Doral, McGovern Headquarters and purveyors of bathrooms so mirrored as to enable Frank Mankiewicz to view the performance of all his major biological functions simultaneously from four different angles...