Word: eagleton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thomas Francis Eagleton has never been anything but exuberant about politics. His father, the late Mark Eagleton, made certain of that. A prominent St. Louis attorney who once ran unsuccessfully for mayor, the elder Eagleton invested his political ambitions in his younger son. The indoctrination was early and intensive. Tom Eagleton's first exposure to national politics came in 1940 when he accompanied his father to the Republican Convention...
Philadelphia. Just ten, he manifested an early maverick streak by differing with his father, a Missouri delegate who supported Wendell Willkie. Young Tom backed Thomas Dewey because, he says, "he had better buttons." As with the Kennedy clan, current events were the staple fare at the Eagleton dinner table, and it was not long before Tom was hooked on politics. "I became fascinated," he recalls. "The way other kids wanted to be farmers or firemen or cowboys, I wanted to be a politician...
...Senate in 1968 and unseated the Democratic incumbent, Ed Long, in a primary fight following a LIFE expose of Long's unsavory dealings with the Teamsters Union. He met George McGovern soon after arriving in Washington, but the two men do not know each other well. Says Eagleton, with characteristic diffidence: "The longest conversation I had with him was one hour in the Senate steam bath in early...
...more formal climes of Washington, D.C., he is regarded as a strong opponent of the war and Pentagon overspending, and has helped press for stiff -er environmental and consumer protection. Now 42, Eagleton has two children, Terry, 13, and Christin, 9, and a wife who figures to be an effective as well as a decorative addition to the campaign. When he was elected to the Senate, Eagleton announced: "I want to be regarded as a great United States Senator. I'd like to be re-elected three terms, acquire some seniority, get some good committees and hear James Reston...
...Chairwoman," or, at least once, as "Madam Chairperson." Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York won a small but loyal following for her presidential candidacy. Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, a Vassar-educated Texan who ran well for Governor earlier this year, was nominated for Vice President and came in second to Eagleton. On the convention's last night, Jean Westwood of Utah, a Mormon who served as one of McGovern's floor managers, was elected the first woman Democratic national chairman...