Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once, asked if he would take his case to the nation on television, he replied: "I won't put my family on television." He added: "We have a dog, too, called Pumpkin." At a convention of the Retail Clerks International Association in Honolulu, where the McGovern-Eagleton ticket got a labor endorsement that was all the more welcome because of the crisis, Eagleton invoked Harry Truman, a predecessor as a U.S. Senator from Missouri and as a Democratic candidate for Vice President. "I hope I have some small measure of the guts he possessed," said Eagleton. The shouting delegates...
...been under pressure" about Eagleton's candidacy. Yet, Eagleton insisted, three times in the course of the conversation he had wrung from McGovern the phrase "that he's 1,000% for me." Defiantly, the vice-presidential candidate told newsmen: "I'm going to stay on the ticket. That's my firm, irrevocable intent." Even if McGovern decides to keep Eagleton after all, the net effect has been to make McGovern look either devious or weak or both, or at the most charitable, indecisive...
...politicians and editorial writers clamoring for Tom Eagleton's exit from the Democratic ticket do not appear to reflect the views of the public. According to a nationwide telephone sampling of 1,015 eligible voters conducted for TIME last week by Crossley Surveys Inc., the American people are more sympathetic to Eagleton than the headlines suggest. The questions...
...McGovern. It is not likely that they changed their minds because of Eagleton's troubles; rather, they were tending to favor McGovern anyway. Or their reaction may have been capricious-the opposite of the one expected by the interviewer. Still, their switch would shave the McGovern-Eagleton ticket's net loss of voters to 1.4% of the total sample...
...surprisingly, Democrats were more willing to keep Eagleton on the ticket than Republicans were. Of the Democrats polled, 60% believed him to be qualified; only 13.3% thought he was not. In the case of the Republicans, 46.3% considered him qualified; 25.4% did not. Youth was more favorable to Eagleton. In the 18-29 age group, 61.8% believed him to be qualified; 12.6% felt the opposite. In the 30-49 age group, Eagleton was approved by 53.3% and rejected by 20.4%. Probably because of the furor over his medical history, Eagleton was better known by the public than a vice-presidential...