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Eagleton's name, says McGovern Executive Assistant Gordon Weil, had first come up speculatively about a month before. When his assets and liabilities were discussed at the last-minute staff meeting, several staff men mentioned rumors of a drinking problem; none, insists Frank Mankiewicz, concerned hospitalization. Weil and one or two other staffers made quick calls to Missouri political figures and to journalists. Says Hart: "There was no tangible evidence whatsoever. Nobody could verify." Despite firm, repeated words of discouragement from Edward Kennedy, however, McGovern stuck to the belief that Ted would run as No. 2. Myer Feldman...
...role was really rather inconsequential. McGovern was outraged -as was O'Brien. After a recent press conference, O'Brien snidely told Hart: "Your candidate looks tired, Mr. Campaign Manager. You'd better see that he gets some rest." Even the protean and brilliant Frank Mankiewicz is the subject of intramural grousing; staffers complain that he is a poor administrator and that he sometimes seems to think that he is the candidate...
...four of us-two wives and two candidates. George said, "Why don't we go over to the study to talk?" I said, "George, frankly I'd like to talk with Eleanor here." I then spelled out to him and his wife, as I spelled out to Mankiewicz, the health thing. I added: "George, if this comes to be an embarrassment or an impediment or hindrance to you, you just ask-you say the word-and I'll withdraw." He said: "Oh, no, no, no. Nothing like that. I understand...
...asked about the dates, where the hospitals were. The four of us talked till like 9:15. He said, "Why don't we bring over some of our people?" I said, "I don't want a whole army." He said, "I'll bring over Mankiewicz and Dick Dougherty. Why don't you bring over two of your guys?" So that made a group of eight. The whole thing was explained once again. We had two choices. One was to announce it then and there or next Monday: that's when I [was to] get back...
Hoyt and Boyd, though sitting on a major exclusive story, decided to turn over a two-page summary of Hoyt's memo to Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's campaign director. Mankiewicz took the summary to McGovern. In return, Boyd and Hoyt expected some corroboration of their story and a chance to interview Eagleton before breaking it. But the McGovern camp decided to present Eagleton as voluntarily admitting past mental disorders rather than responding to an accusation. Aides rushed him into a public admission at a press conference that robbed the Knight papers of an exclusive they had earned through...