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There was general agreement about Eagleton last week among depression patients gathered in the Manhattan office of Psychiatrist Leonard Cammer for electrical treatment. Author of the helpful volume Up From Depression (Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books), Cammer objects to the terms "shock" and "electroconvulsive therapy." He prefers "electric-stimulation treatment." He offers his patients heavy doses of reassurance, and advises them not to hide their problems and treatment from friends and associates...
Feet propped on his desk in the New Senate Office Building, cradling the phone as he took calls from friends, political associates and downright strangers, ex-Nominee Tom Eagleton was probably more relaxed than he had ever been during his frenetic political career. Gone were the trembles that sometimes appeared during his brief and furious reign on the Democratic ticket. At times his manner was a bit too bluff and hearty, sometimes wistful, but rarely if ever self-pitying. "For seven days in a row, I was under the greatest pressure I've ever been in my life...
...Eagleton's sudden rise and fall in national Democratic politics was one of the odder chapters of recent American politics, surely sufficiently swift to give any man the psychic bends. In his cheeriness, there was some suggestion that Eagleton himself might have had doubts about his ability to take the strain. But overall, he endured his abrupt anointment and excommunication with thoroughbred resilience. As he left the Senate after his final session with McGovern, Eagleton insisted upon shaking hands with a dozen onlookers on the street: "Goodnight folks. Vote for McGovern...
Back home in Missouri, Eagleton's political allies took the whole episode with less equanimity. A few talked angrily of organizing a draft-Eagleton move this week when the Democratic National Committee meets to ratify his successor. It seemed that if anything, Eagleton's position was considerably strengthened in his home state, where he is up for re-election in 1974. "If the election were held today," said an aide to Governor Warren Hearnes, "Tom would be elected unanimously." At the same time, Eagleton's departure from the ticket unquestionably diminishes McGovern's chances of carrying...
Ordeal. From across the nation, Eagleton received an extraordinary outpouring of support and sympathy. His office reported that 98% of the initial calls and letters were favorable.* That flood was doubtless enhanced by Columnist Jack Anderson's public apology and retraction of charges he had made that Eagleton had a history of arrests for drunken driving...