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...Eagleton Affair (Contd...
...Eagleton Affair [Aug. 14]: The liberal, understanding, modern-thinking Mr. McGovern shows us his true side as he echoes the overstrained voices of some Americans who live with the suspicions and ignorant fears of the 19th century...
...have viewed George McGovern with hope. It looked as though this seemingly credible man would finally be able to change priorities in our Government from a kill count in Viet Nam to a job and food count in Harlem. But with McGovern's "handling" of Eagleton, he has developed a true politician's trait-the forked-tongue syndrome...
...deserve Mr. Eagleton. His display of maturity, stability and selflessness is not homogeneous with the irrational, virulent, self-seeking mob of America today...
Russell, a Democratic housewife from South San Gabriel, Calif., who liked McGovern before but is now undecided as to whom to vote for. In shifting from " 1,000% " support of Eagleton to dropping him, McGovern "lied-and let me down," charges Student James Kauffman, an independent first-time voter from Avon Lake, Ohio. The sympathies of Mrs. John Campbell of Collingswood, N.J., were all with Eagleton because if "he didn't crack during that week, he certainly wouldn't have cracked in office." About the highest praise McGovern got from the group was the mild "I just think...