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...Louis, and when Tom came home after Amherst and Harvard Law, he soon plunged into the politics he had been weaned on. He was always the youngest-youngest city circuit attorney at 27, youngest state attorney general at 31, youngest Lieutenant Governor at 35. When he first arrived in Jefferson City, the rural, stodgy state capital, his breezy manner made a few influential enemies. They are thought to have started the drinking rumors that have plagued Eagleton's career and are, by every reliable account, without foundation. He was a one-of-the-boys drinker as a weekday bachelor...
...demands of his new stature, McGovern did have time for some unwinding. He slept long and late, walked occasionally in the forests of tall South Dakota spruce. McGovern even made a pilgrimage to Mount Rushmore, where he consented to pose in profile against the granite likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. McGovern thought the idea might smack of hubris, but an aide told him: "Politics is theater...
...merging into broader concerns that cut across the usual lines, and that regional affiliations are largely losing their meaning. There is a restless, undefinable yearning for change, they say, and it is producing what McGovern termed in his acceptance speech a political ferment comparable to "the eras of Jefferson, Jackson and Roosevelt." "We're just trying to ride the waves that are coming in," explains one of McGovern's top theorists, Fred Dutton, a lawyer who advised both John and Robert Kennedy...
...proper aim? The philosophical debate is as old as the Republic, and it split the Founding Fathers. James Madison advocated laws that "would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity and raise extreme indigence toward a state of comfort"-a reasonable description of McGovern's goals. Thomas Jefferson argued against perpetuation of wealth, contending among other things that the assurance of a large inheritance "sometimes does injury to the morals of youth by rendering them independent of, and disobedient to, their parents." But Alexander Hamilton contended that inequality of property "would exist as long as liberty existed...
...Bloody Mary" Tudor went to her coronation with a splitter. Ulysses S. Grant suffered so severely that he took to his bed on the eve of Appomattox, only to have his pain vanish when he received word that Robert E. Lee was ready to discuss surrender. Thomas Jefferson, who suffered from severe periodic headaches, tried philosophically to ignore them...