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Article: From Eagleton's papers: 1972 revisited.(Thomas Eagleton)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Throughout his public life former United States Sen. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.) had an extensive and sometimes close relationship with the press.
Years before he died last March, he told friends that if he hadn't been a politician, he probably would have been a journalist. After his Senate career ended, Eagleton wrote regular opinion pieces for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
But it was in the days surrounding the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, that Eagleton's dealings with the media attracted national attention. Disclosures by reporters that he had been treated for depression and exhaustion and had electroshock therapy became such an ...