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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Wednesday, November S, T 972
Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, November 15, 1972
Top aides knew of
Eagleton s treatment
DEMOCRATS DISAGREE
McGovern backs Westwood
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SPECIAL! HOT CHOCOLATE
WASHINGTON (R) -Sen. George
McGovern's top aides learned that
Thomas Eagleton had been hos-
pitalized for exhaustion even be-
fore the Missouri senator was
selected as the vice-presidential
nominee, an interview with the
Associated Press disclosed yester-
day.
Within hours of Eagleton's nom-
ination, .two top McGovern aides
Gordon Weil and Frank Mankie-
wicz, received confirmation from
Douglas, Bennett, Eagleton's ad-
ministrative assistant, but failed
to pass the word to McGovern un-
til a few hours later.
At that point, "It wasn't a seri-
ous problem". Mankiewicz said.
: Mankiewicz and Bennett agreed
that Eagleton never mentioned
that he had undergone electric
shock treatments until nearly a
week later, 'after an anonymous
tipster gave that information to a
Knight Newspaper executive and
to two McGovern aides.
Bennett said, however, "there
was never any effort to conceal the
shock treatments." Eagleton, how-
ever, omitted mention of them on
July 25 when he detailed his medi-
cal history for reporters, though
subsequent questioning brought it
out.
The interviews conducted in the
wake of McGovern's election de-
feat, confirmed for the first time
the extent to which the McGovern
camp knew of Eagleton's medical
history,; both before and immedi-
ately< after he was nominated as
the No. 2 man on the Democratic
tickset.
* Those involved put blame for the
incident, from which McGovern
says his campaign never recover-
ed,; on Eagleton's eagerness for
the nomination, the haste with
which he was picked and the initial
feeling, in both McGovern and
Eagleton camps, that his medical
history did not present a serious
problem..
As early as the Wednesday night
of the convention, before McGov-
ern himself was even nominated,
Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, the
senator's press secretary, received
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word in the candidates' trailer of a
report circulating on the conven-
tion floor that Eagleton had been
in the hospital with a mental prob-
lem.
Weil, who was unavailable for
questioning this week, was detail-
ed to check reports that Eagleton
had a drinking problem, and ac-
cording to Mankiewicz and leg-
islative assistant John Holun re-
ported back that the Missourian
had been hospitalized for exhaus-
tion, not drinking.
"It was an answer to the alco-
holism charge. That's what we
were looking for," Holun recalled.
"No one really thought of it on its
own." Mankwiecz said he doubts
that McGovern was told. "Why
shouldn't the senator go into the
hospital for exhaustion?" he asked.
"So have a lot of people. That's
like saying he had polio when he
was a kid."
Thursday afternoon, Eagleton
was selected as the running mate
and McGovern phoned him with
the news. After a brief conversa-
tion, in which the Missouri sena-
tor said he would accept, McGov-
ern turned the phone over to
I Mankiewicz, who said he asked
"if there was anything in his re-
cord" that would present a prob-
lem.
On Monday, July 17, as McGov-
ern flew to his South Dakota vaca-
tion, John Knight III in Detroit re-
ceived the anonymous tip that
Eagleton had, been hospitalized in
1960 in St. Louis and received elec-
tric-shock treatment. The next
day, a- similar message was phon-
ed to the Washington offices of
Mankiewicz and Gary Hart, Mc-
Govern's campaign manager.
On Thursday, Eagleton, Bennett,
Mankiewicz and Hart met .for
breakfast and Eagleton confirmed
the shock treatments and acknowl-
edged the third period of hospit-
alization.
By the AP and Reuters
WASHINGTON - Influential
Democrats, trying to bring their
party back to the middle of the
road following Sen. George Mc-
Govern's presidential defeat, yes-
terday mounted a campaign to
remove one of his main allies,
Jean Westwood, the Democratic
party chairperson.
McGovern however warned
against any hasty action to re-
move Westwood. He also said
thevparty was an unnatural, un-
stable coalition, and the country
would benefit if his defeat for the
presidency leads to broad party
realignment.
Indirectly, he seemed to be in-
viting at least some of the Demo-
crats who supported President
Nixon to shift to the Republican
party.
In a news conference yester-
day in the Virgin Islands, McGov-
ern advised the Democratic Na-
tional Committee to go slowly in
removing Westwood from the
chairpersonship in which he plac-
ed her after his nomination last
summer.
He urged caution also in abol-
ishing any of the party's new
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procedural reforms of which he
was a leading sponsor.
Meeting in Washington Mon-
day, the Executive Committee of
the Democratic Governors Cau-
cus called on Westwood to resign
to help give the party a new
sense of direction after its defeat
in the presidential election. West-
wood opposition has surfaced
elsewhere in the party, also.
McGovern said Westwood and
her staff did a good job during
the campaign and it would be
"rather unusual procedure for a
chairperson to serve three or
four months and be asked to re-
sign."
He said if "in the interest of
reconciling the party, a major-
ity of the committee came to
feel that a change ought to be
made, they can always do that,"
but he said they should .wait un-
til 1973.
Speaking of political align-
ments, McGovern said: "I've
thought for a long time there was
an unnatural coalition in the
Democratic party. It was very
difficult . . . to maintain. If
some way can be found to secure
a more natural alignment it
would be a good thing."
He said he would not artificial-
ly promote shifts from Republi-
cans to Democrats and vice ver-
sa "but if there is a natural re-
alignment to parties that devel-
ops out of what happened this
year, it would be good for the
country."
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