Word got out that Eagleton had been treated for depression, with electroshock therapy.
Tim Vercellotti of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University is one of the authors of the study.
"Those things are so embedded in custom, " said Ingrid Reed, the former director of the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics.
What happened to Thomas Eagleton 12 years after Kennedy's campaign shows how sensitive the public can be to a candidate's health issues.
Two weeks after the nomination Eagleton withdrew in the face of revelations that he had been hospitalized for mental illness, and R.
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Two and a half weeks after he was nominated, Eagleton withdrew from the race, saying he didn't want to hurt the Democratic Party.
"On three occasions in my life, I have voluntarily gone into hospitals as result of nervous exhaustion and fatigue, " Eagleton said at the time.
In this new, small-d democratic convention, Eagleton was nominated for vice president along with six others: former Gov. Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts, Alaska Sen.
That "1, 000 percent" lasted until July 31, when, after a national uproar and following a meeting with McGovern, Eagleton withdrew from the ticket under pressure.
Mr. TIM VERCELLOTTI (Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University): In this way, as the requirements for identification became more stringent, the probability of voting declined.
Democrat George McGovern picked Eagleton for his vice presidential running mate.
Tom Eagleton was elected statewide five times: as attorney general in 1960, lieutenant governor in 1964, and three terms as a U.S. senator, beginning in 1968.
For this he has been taken to task by Terry Eagleton, a professor of English at Oxford University and a leading exponent of politically committed criticism.
Thomas Eagleton, a little-known, pro-labor, Roman Catholic liberal from Missouri.
Take Tom Eagleton, who admitted undergoing electroshock therapy.
Thirteen days later, Eagleton conceded what Democrats and journalists had been whispering about for days: that he had been hospitalized three times in the 1960s for depression and stress, and that he had undergone electric shock therapy.
Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate.
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