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MILWAUKEE: The South Side of this large city (pop. 717,000) is the middle of Middle America, with a tavern on every corner. The families are mostly blue-collar, third-and fourth-generation descendants of Poles, Italians, Germans and Serbians; they gave George McGovern a slight majority. South Siders talk about many things: family problems, rising truancy in schools, soaring property taxes, baseball and-a poor fifth-Watergate...
...Cook, 52, a printer and a McGovern Democrat, is far from jubilant about Watergate. "It's a sad thing," he says. "Anybody in the White House should be above that. They were crying law-and-order when they went in, and now we see them pulling everything in the book. It's hard to believe that Nixon didn't know something about all this. If he was involved, he should resign. That would be better for the country than if he were impeached...
...safe, according to the Washington Post, also contained cop ies of hospital records of Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton's treatment for mental illness. The Post reported that the papers had been there before Eagleton's shock treatments were publicly reported, leading to his withdrawal as George McGovern's vice-presidential running mate. Did the White House do anything to plant the first stories? It seems unlikely, but it is typical of the climate created by Watergate that the question was being raised last week...
...registered Democrat who voted for George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election, said at a hurriedly-assembled Holyoke Center news conference last Friday that he had accepted the job because "somehow we must restore confidence in the honor, integrity and decency of government and this is a major part of that important task...
...more constructive moods, Hunter Thompson suggests that what a man like George McGovern needs is "at least one dark kinky streak of Mick Jagger in his soul." In the final analysis, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail makes it clear that something like this, something is necessary to beat...