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...leaders for the fight should not all be youthful members of McGovern's own staff but battle-tested convention veterans. Among the 23 chosen were Senators Frank Church, Fred Harris, Abraham Ribicoff and Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, South Dakota Lieutenant Governor William Dougherty, and Hart and Frank Mankiewicz...
...Senator Mike Gravel, former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody and Texas State Representative Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold. By the time the roll call finally began, the delegates were in a prankish mood, casting ballots for TV's Archie Bunker, Martha Mitchell and CBS-TV's Roger Mudd. It was, said Mankiewicz, "like the last day of school." Because the clerk misheard a name, one vote was even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally, in a grace note that brought the convention to its feet cheering, the Alabama delegation cast all of its 37 votes for Eagleton, explaining that had Wallace been...
...broker sources. "I've been covering these things for 20 years," complained Columnist Robert Novak, "and I don't know a soul here." But Novak and others had only to look away from the sea of fresh faces on the floor to find old hands like Frank Mankiewicz, Pierre Salinger and Richard Dougherty at McGovern headquarters, eager to brief newsmen on plans and tactics. "This convention's easier to cover," maintained Thomas Ross of the Chicago Sun-Times, "because there aren't as many double-dealers among the delegates. At other conventions, you'd think...
...night before, after the nomination had been made official, Frank Mankiewicz returned from the convention hall and threw open the door to McGovern's suite, bellowing: "Senator, it was a TRIP AND A HALF...
...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...