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...Washington speech last week, was told: "You're going to be under pressure again, if you aren't already, to do something to rescue the party." Kennedy made a face: no way. By some reports, McGovern was mulling a new list of four men-each, like Eagleton, a Roman Catholic-one of whom might be tapped for the vice presidency instead...
...McGovern does drop Eagleton, the process of confirming a successor could get messy. One group of Democratic National Committee members, allocated to the various states on the same basis as convention delegates, would ratify McGovern's choice of a replacement for Eagleton. The trouble is that the D.N.C., like the convention, is operating under new rules; about 25 of the 161 members who would vote on a new No. 2 nominee have not even been selected, and, as at the convention, some of the delegations could be challenged. Probably in practice the problems would not be great, since...
Guts. Amid all the talk of replacing Eagleton, he kept insisting that he would bow out if McGovern wanted him to but that McGovern was still behind him. At one time Eagleton promised to telephone his doctors and ask them if they could make a statement about his health (he never did). While he was in Honolulu, there came another blow-which, in the unlikely event Eagleton survives, could well turn out to be what saved his candidacy. Washington Columnist Jack Anderson asserted on his daily Mutual broadcast that he had "located photostats of half a dozen arrests" of Eagleton...
...remaining friends on McGovern's staff. McGovern confessed to one political ally that there were deep and bitter divisions among his advisers over the Eagleton matter. Nobody was enthusiastic about keeping Eagleton; the best that his defenders counseled was a wait-and-see approach. Press Secretary Dick Dougherty and South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Bill Dougherty both favored dumping Eagleton. Fred Dutton, author of Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970's and McGovern's most thoughtful political adviser, was adamantly anti-Eagleton. An almost Mafia-like atmosphere developed amid the rustic charms of McGovern...
...week. On Friday afternoon he telephoned Jules Witcover of the Los Angeles Times at the Hi-Ho Motel in Custer. McGovern invited Witcover to his cabin for an hour-and-a-half interview. Witcover's lengthy piece conveyed McGovern's message: public reaction to the disclosure of Eagleton's past health problems has been so negative that Eagleton must withdraw -voluntarily. McGovern told Witcover that he was confident of Eagleton's capacity to be President, but that Eagleton's failure to disclose the medical background reflects on McGovern's own credibility. Credibility has been...