Page Two 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 --- .1 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 - COUSIN 274S -'AI 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 The Michigan Daily, edited and man- aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0562. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich-, igan 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- day through Sunday morning Univer-' sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by carrier (campus area); $11 local mall (in Mich. or Ohio) ; $13 non-local mail (other states and foreign). Summer Session published Tuesday through Saturday morning. Subscrip- tion rates: $5.50 by carrier (campus 1area); $6.50 local mall (in Mich. or Ohio); $7 50 non-local mail (other states and foreign). 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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