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...unruly, facetious vice-presidential nominations from the convention floor, but McGovern was saying to the delegates that he did not mind because Senator Thomas Francis Eagleton of Missouri was so clearly a superior alternative to Spiro Agnew. Only moments before, Eagleton had stood on the podium with his running mate, arms raised in triumph, a partly dazed but wholly rapturous grin spread across his boyish, Jack Lemmony face...
...occasions, in 1960, 1964 and 1966, he had been hospitalized in St. Louis or at the Mayo Clinic for nervous exhaustion. When the McGovern camp learned that the Knight newspapers were ready to break a story on Eagleton's medical history (see THE PRESS), McGovern and his running mate decided to break the news themselves at a press conference in Sylvan Lake, S. Dak. Eagleton described himself as "an intense and hard-fighting person," and added: "I sometimes push myself too far." After his successful 1960 campaign for attorney general of Missouri, he was hospitalized in St. Louis...
...think Tom Eagleton is fully qualified in mind, body and spirit to be the Vice President of the United States and, if necessary, to take on the presidency at a moment's notice," McGovern said. McGovern noted that when he had asked Eagleton to be his running mate, he had inquired "if he had any problems in his past that were significant or worth discussing with me." Eagleton told him no-"and I agree with that," McGovern said. He added: "If I had known every detail that he discussed this morning, he would still have been my choice...
...McGovern calmly stayed put in South Dakota. Eagleton, at first shaken, gained strength through a hectic week of campaigning in California and Hawaii. By the end of the week, it was McGovern who seemed to be wavering as he apparently tried to ditch Eagleton without actually informing his running mate directly. They would meet early this week in Washington. But McGovern made no effort to discourage his backers from dump-Eagleton talk, and he tried to enlist the press in getting the word to Eagleton. In stories based on conversations with him but transparently attributed only to "sources close...
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...