Word: missouri
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...sources" on the convention floor. In this "new" convention, old sources were not as common as they used to be, but Gart was able to return with a secret "short list" of vice-presidential candidates: U.A.W.'s Leonard Woodcock, Senators Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Promptly, a reporter and photographer were dispatched to cover each of these three vice-presidential possibilities. As a result, Correspondent John Stacks was at Ribicoffs side in his hotel suite when McGovern phoned the next day to ask him to be his running mate. Stacks knew before McGovern himself - because...
...ballpark has changed; past patterns are no longer valid." A study by Student Vote, a nonpartisan group trying to mobilize young voters, claims that if only half of the 25 million vote and just 60% of them choose McGovern, this would swing to McGovern six states (Tennessee, Alaska, California, Missouri, New Jersey and Ohio) that went Republican in 1968. If he held the Humphrey states, a shaky assumption, and added the six's 118 electoral votes, he would defeat Nixon...
...series of meetings next day, some 25 new possibilities were suggested, including three blacks and several women. The list was pared to Lawrence O'Brien, Sargent Shriver, Kevin White, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale and Missouri Senator Tom Eagleton. McGovern was looking for a man who had identification with urban affairs, ability, the stature to assume the presidency, and a national rather than a regional appeal. Catholicism was understood to be helpful, if not vital...
WHEN the call finally came late last week, Tom Eagleton had almost given up hope. The junior Senator from Missouri had been informed that he was on George McGovern's "short list" of vice-presidential choices, and the waiting was withering. He had stayed up half the previous night sipping gins and tonic and wisecracking with his aides to ease the tension. His lame jokes were not half so funny as the fact that he was wearing unmatched shoes. The next morning he paced his hotel room like a caged cat, twitching each time the telephone rang...
Philadelphia. Just ten, he manifested an early maverick streak by differing with his father, a Missouri delegate who supported Wendell Willkie. Young Tom backed Thomas Dewey because, he says, "he had better buttons." As with the Kennedy clan, current events were the staple fare at the Eagleton dinner table, and it was not long before Tom was hooked on politics. "I became fascinated," he recalls. "The way other kids wanted to be farmers or firemen or cowboys, I wanted to be a politician...