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...your party where you belong," pleaded Hubert Humphrey to disaffected Democrats, adding with a touch of personal bitterness: "Richard Nixon is in the White House because too many Democrats didn't come home in 1968." Now some of them seemed to be returning. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley congratulated Shriver, and one of Daley's close associates, Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, made a nominating speech for the vice-presidential candidate...
...pros, contrasting with the more youthful convention in Miami Beach. It gave Tom Eagleton such an enthusiastic reception that he looked like a winner rather than a man bumped from the ticket because of his past mental-depression treatments. Yet there was an almost solid show of unity behind Shriver on the committee roll call. He got all of the 3,016 votes except Missouri's 73, which went sympathetically to Eagleton, and four in Oregon that went to former Senator Wayne Morse, who is seeking a comeback there this year. In introducing Shriver, McGovern's speech...
...flashing the toothy Kennedy smile, tossing the thick Kennedy mane and speaking in the metallic Kennedy accent, did Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver sound the old Kennedy rallying call last week. She candidly admits that her husband Sargent Shriver, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, created a certain coolness among some Kennedy clansmen by staying on to serve in both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations and not sufficiently pitching in to aid Bobby's 1968 campaign. Nothing, however, takes the chill off as quickly as a hotly contested political race for high stakes. "There have been problems," says Eunice...
...present is in fact just like old times for Eunice Shriver. An enthusiastic campaigner who began by canvassing the dingy walk-ups in Boston for her older brother, Congressional Candidate John F. Kennedy, she has been stumping for one clansman or another for the better part of 20 years. Now 51, the hardest-driving and most intellectual of the Kennedy sisters would not have it any other way. If anything, she relishes the underdog role of the McGovern-Shriver ticket. "Sarge should be in public life," she insists. "He is awfully able, and his whole life has been in public...
...work in Chicago's juvenile court and at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va. In 1947 she was appointed to the dollar-a-year post of executive secretary of the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency. After her marriage to Shriver in 1953, Eunice shifted her primary field of interest to mental retardation. (Rosemary, the eldest Kennedy sister, is in an institution for the mentally retarded.) When J.F.K. became President in 1960, Eunice persuaded him to establish the National Institute of Child Health and to appoint a panel that became the Presidential Committee...