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wa post:  The least responsible coverage of the ensuing frenzy was provided by columnist Jack Anderson, who falsely reported a half-dozen Eagleton "arrests" for drunk driving and other traffic offenses based on a questionable and unverified tip. Anderson's gross breach of journalistic ethics in printing unproven gossip generated some sympathy for Eagleton, but it could not save him.

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<a href="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton</a>

Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senator</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">vice presidential</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominee" title="Nominee" class="mw-redirect">nominee</a> under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern">George McGovern</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972" title="United States presidential election, 1972">1972</a>. After his public service he became adjunct professor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_administration" title="Public administration">public affairs</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_University_in_St._Louis" title="Washington University in St. Louis">Washington University</a>.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Early_life_and_political_career">1 Early life and political career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#1972_presidential_campaign">2 1972 presidential campaign</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#.22Amnesty.2C_abortion.2C_and_acid.22">2.1 "Amnesty, abortion, and acid"</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Selection_as_vice_presidential_candidate">2.2 Selection as vice presidential candidate</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Replacement_on_the_ticket">2.3 Replacement on the ticket</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Re-election_to_Senate">3 Re-election to Senate</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Senate_career">4 Senate career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Post-Senate_career">5 Post-Senate career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Death">6 Death</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#References">7.1 References</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#Further_reading">8 Further reading</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#External_links">9 External links</a></li>

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<h2>Early life and political career</h2>

Eagleton was the son of another <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Louis,Missouri" title="St. Louis, Missouri" class="mw-redirect">St. Louis</a> politician, Mark D. Eagleton (who had run for mayor), and Zitta Swanson.

He graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Institute_and_St._Louis_Country_Day_School" title="Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School">St. Louis Country Day School</a>, served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> for two years, and graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a> in 1950, where he was a member of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Kappa_Epsilon" title="Delta Kappa Epsilon">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a> fraternity (Sigma Chapter). He then attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a>.

Eagleton married Barbara Ann Smith of St. Louis on January 26, 1956. A son, Terence, was born in 1959, and a daughter, Christin, was born in 1963.

He was elected circuit attorney of the City of St. Louis in 1956. During his tenure, he appeared on the TV show <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F" title="What's My Line?">What's My Line?</a> (episode #355) as "District Attorney of St. Louis". (He stumped the panel.)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-0">[1]</a> He was elected Missouri <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" title="Attorney General" class="mw-redirect">Attorney General</a> in 1960, at the age of 31 (the youngest in the state's history). He was elected the 38th <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_Missouri" title="List of lieutenant governors of Missouri">Lieutenant Governor of Missouri</a> in 1964, and won a U.S. Senate seat in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,1968" title="United States Senate elections, 1968">1968</a> unseating incumbent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_V.Long" title="Edward V. Long">Edward V. Long</a> in the Democratic primary and narrowly defeating Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_B._Curtis" title="Thomas B. Curtis">Thomas B. Curtis</a> in the general election.

Between 1960 and 1966, Eagleton checked himself into the hospital three times for physical and nervous exhaustion, receiving <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy" title="Electroconvulsive therapy">electroconvulsive therapy</a> twice.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-stlpd-1">[2]</a> He was also known to have suffered from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_depression" title="Clinical depression" class="mw-redirect">depression</a>.

The hospitalizations, which were not widely publicized, had little effect on his political aspirations, although the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch" title="St. Louis Post-Dispatch">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a> was to note, in 1972, immediately after his vice presidential nomination: "He had been troubled with gastric disturbances, which led to occasional hospitalizations. The stomach troubles have contributed to rumors that he had a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">drinking problem</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-stlpd-1">[2]</a>

<h2>1972 presidential campaign</h2>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972" title="United States presidential election, 1972">United States presidential election, 1972</a></div>

<h3>"Amnesty, abortion, and acid"</h3>

On April 25, 1972, George McGovern won the Massachusetts primary, and conservative journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak" title="Robert Novak">Robert Novak</a> phoned Democratic politicians around the country. On April 27, 1972 Novak reported in a column his conversation with an unnamed Democratic senator about McGovern.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLKansascitystar-2">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLColumbiatribune-3">[4]</a>

Novak quoted the senator as saying "The people don't know McGovern is for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_dodger#Draft_dodging_and_the_Vietnam_War" title="Draft dodger" class="mw-redirect">amnesty</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States" title="Abortion in the United States">abortion</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decriminalization_of_marijuana_in_the_United_States" title="Decriminalization of marijuana in the United States" class="mw-redirect">legalization of pot</a>. Once middle America — <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic" title="Catholic" class="mw-redirect">Catholic</a> middle America, in particular — finds this out, he’s dead."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLKansascitystar-2">[3]</a> Because of the column McGovern became known as the candidate of "amnesty, abortion and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide" title="Lysergic acid diethylamide">acid</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-4">[5]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLMeetthepress-5">[6]</a>

On July 15, 2007, several months after Eagleton's death, Novak stated on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Press" title="Meet the Press">Meet the Press</a> that the unnamed senator was Eagleton.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLMeetthepress-5">[6]</a> Novak was accused in 1972 of manufacturing the quote, but stated that to rebut the criticism, he took Eagleton to lunch after the campaign and asked whether he could identify him as the source; the senator refused.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLKansascitystar-2">[3]</a> "Oh, he had to run for re-election", said Novak, "the McGovernites would kill him if they knew he had said that."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLMeetthepress-5">[6]</a> Political analyst <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Shrum" title="Bob Shrum">Bob Shrum</a> says that Eagleton would never have been selected as McGovern's running mate if it had been known at the time that Eagleton was the source of the quote.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLMeetthepress-5">[6]</a> "Boy, do I wish he would have let you publish his name. Then he never would have been picked as vice president," said Shrum.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLMeetthepress-5">[6]</a> "Because the two things, the two things that happened to George McGovern — two of the things that happened to him — were the label you put on him, number one, and number two, the Eagleton disaster. We had a messy convention, but he could have, I think in the end, carried eight or 10 states, remained politically viable. And Eagleton was one of the great train wrecks of all time."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-PCOLMeetthepress-5">[6]</a>

<h3>Selection as vice presidential candidate</h3>

In 1972, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> appeared unbeatable. When McGovern won the Democratic nomination for President, virtually all of the high-profile Democrats, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy">Ted Kennedy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Walter Mondale</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey" title="Hubert Humphrey">Hubert Humphrey</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Muskie" title="Edmund Muskie">Edmund Muskie</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-6">[7]</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Bayh" title="Birch Bayh">Birch Bayh</a> turned down offers to run on the ticket. McGovern had been convinced that Kennedy would join the ticket. Kennedy ended up refusing. McGovern campaign manager <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart" title="Gary Hart">Gary Hart</a> suggested <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Boston" title="Mayor of Boston" class="mw-redirect">Mayor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_White_%28mayor%29" title="Kevin White (mayor)">Kevin White</a>. McGovern called White, and received "an emphatic yes", but the leader of the Massachusetts delegation, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Galbraith" title="Ken Galbraith" class="mw-redirect">Ken Galbraith</a>, said the Massachusetts delegation would walk-out if the announcement was made to the Convention that McGovern had chosen White as his VP, as White had backed Muskie during the Massachusetts primary (yet, Massachusetts ended up being the only state that McGovern would carry in Electoral College votes on November 7, Election Day).

McGovern then asked Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson" title="Gaylord Nelson">Gaylord Nelson</a> to be his running mate. Nelson declined but suggested Tom Eagleton, whom McGovern ultimately chose, with only a minimal background check. Eagleton made no mention of his earlier hospitalizations, and in fact decided with his wife to keep them secret from McGovern while he was flying to his first meeting with the Presidential nominee.

<h3>Replacement on the ticket</h3>

McGovern said he would back Eagleton "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_percent" title="1000 percent">1000 percent</a>". Subsequently, McGovern consulted confidentially with preeminent psychiatrists, including Eagleton's own doctors, who advised him that a recurrence of Eagleton's depression was possible and could endanger the country should Eagleton become president.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-7">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-8">[9]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-9">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-10">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-11">[12]</a> On August 1, Eagleton withdrew at McGovern's request and, after a new search by McGovern, was replaced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_family#Fourth_generation" title="Kennedy family">Kennedy in-law</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargent_Shriver" title="Sargent Shriver">Sargent Shriver</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-12">[13]</a>

A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28magazine%29" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> magazine poll taken at the time found that 77 percent of the respondents said "Eagleton's medical record would not affect their vote." Nonetheless, the press made frequent references to his 'shock therapy', and McGovern feared that this would detract from his campaign platform.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-13">[14]</a>

McGovern's handling of the controversy was an opening for the Republican campaign to raise serious questions about his judgment. In the general election, the Democratic ticket won only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. [atwater used later?]  Jack Anderson leaked the info?]

<h2>Re-election to Senate</h2>

Missouri returned Eagleton to the Senate in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,1974" title="United States Senate elections, 1974">1974</a>; he won 60% of the popular vote against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_B.Curtis" title="Thomas B. Curtis">Thomas B. Curtis</a>, who had been his opponent in 1968. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_1980" title="United States Senate elections, 1980">1980</a>, he was re-elected again by a closer-than-expected margin over St. Louis County Executive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_McNary" title="Gene McNary">Gene McNary</a>.

During the 1980 election, Eagleton's niece Elizabeth Eagleton Weigand and lawyer Stephen Poludniak were arrested for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail" title="Blackmail">blackmail</a> after they threatened to spread false accusations that Eagleton was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality" title="Bisexuality">bisexual</a>. Eagleton told reporters that the extorted money was to be turned over to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology" title="Church of Scientology">Church of Scientology</a>. Poludniak and Weigand appealed the conviction all the way to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a>, arguing that they could not have gotten a fair trial because of "the massive publicity surrounding this case, coupled with the pre-existing sentiment in favor of Sen. Eagleton". The Court turned down the appeal.

Eagleton did not seek a fourth term in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_1986" title="United States Senate elections, 1986">1986</a>.

<h2>Senate career</h2>

In the Senate, Eagleton was active in matters dealing with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign relations of the United States">foreign relations</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence%28information_gathering%29" title="Intelligence (information gathering)" class="mw-redirect">intelligence</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_United_States" title="Military of the United States" class="mw-redirect">defense</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States" title="Education in the United States">education</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States" title="Health care in the United States">health care</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment" title="Natural environment">environment</a>. He was instrumental to the Senate's passage of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act%28United_States%29" title="Clean Air Act (United States)">Clean Air Act</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water Act</a>, and sponsored the amendment that halted the bombing in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> and effectively ended American involvement in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.

Eagleton was one of the authors of The Hatch-Eagleton Amendment, introduced in the Senate on January 26, 1983 with Sen. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_Hatch" title="Orrin Hatch">Orrin Hatch</a> (R), which stated that "A right to abortion is not secured by this Constitution".

<h2>Post-Senate career</h2>

In 1987, Eagleton returned to Missouri as an attorney, political commentator, and professor at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_University_in_St.Louis" title="Washington University in St. Louis">Washington University in St. Louis</a>, where until his death he was professor of public affairs. Throughout his Washington University career, Eagleton taught courses in economics with former chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisors" title="Council of Economic Advisors" class="mw-redirect">Council of Economic Advisors</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Weidenbaum" title="Murray Weidenbaum">Murray Weidenbaum</a> and with history professor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Berger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Berger (page does not exist)">Henry Berger</a> on the Vietnam War. Eagleton selected research assistants from among his students. In 2005 and 2006, he co-taught a seminar on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">US presidency</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">Constitution</a> with Joel Goldstein at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_University_School_of_Law" title="Saint Louis University School of Law">Saint Louis University School of Law</a>. He was also a partner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-14">[15]</a> in the St. Louis law firm of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Coburn" title="Thompson Coburn">Thompson Coburn</a> and was a chief negotiator for a coalition of local business interests that lured the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Louis_Rams" title="St. Louis Rams">Los Angeles Rams</a> football team to St. Louis. He was the author of three books on politics and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Eighth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit">8th Circuit</a> Federal Courthouse in St. Louis, dedicated on September 11, 2000, is named after him.

He has been honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in the University City Loop.

In January 2001, he joined other Missouri Democrats to oppose the nomination of former Missouri governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft" title="John Ashcroft">John Ashcroft</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">United States Attorney General</a>. Eagleton was quoted in the official <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Judiciary Committee</a> record: "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Danforth" title="John Danforth">John Danforth</a> would have been my first choice. John Ashcroft would have been my last choice."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-15">[16]</a>

Eagleton also strongly supported Democratic Senate candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_McCaskill" title="Claire McCaskill">Claire McCaskill</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_general_elections,_2006" title="United States general elections, 2006" class="mw-redirect">2006</a>; McCaskill won, defeating incumbent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Talent" title="Jim Talent">Jim Talent</a>.

Eagleton led a group, "Catholics for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Constitutional_Amendment_2_%282006%29" title="Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2 (2006)">Amendment 2</a>", composed of prominent Catholics, that challenged church leaders' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy" title="Stem cell controversy">opposition to embryonic stem cell research</a> and to the proposed state constitutional amendment (#2) that would have protected such research in Missouri. The group e-mailed a letter to fellow Catholics explaining reasons for supporting Amendment 2.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-stemcell-16">[17]</a> The amendment ensures that any federally approved stem cell research and treatments would be available in Missouri. "[T]he letter from Catholics for Amendment 2 said the group felt a moral obligation to respond to what it called misinformation, scare tactics and distortions being spread by opponents of the initiative, including the church."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-stemcell-16">[17]</a>

During the 2000s (decade), Eagleton served on the Council of Elders for the George and Eleanor McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Wesleyan_University" title="Dakota Wesleyan University">Dakota Wesleyan University</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-17">[18]</a>

On July 23, 1996, Eagleton delivered a warm introductory speech for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern">George McGovern</a> during a promotional tour for McGovern's book, Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism, at The Library, Ltd., in St. Louis, Missouri. At that time, McGovern spoke favorably about Eagleton and reminisced about their short-lived presidential ticket in 1972.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-18">[19]</a>

<h2>Death</h2>

Eagleton died in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a> on March 4, 2007, of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory" title="Respiratory" class="mw-redirect">respiratory</a> complications. Eagleton donated his body to medical science at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_University" title="Washington University" class="mw-redirect">Washington University</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-19">[20]</a> He wrote a farewell letter to his family and friends months before he died, citing that his dying wishes were for people to "go forth in love and peace — be kind to dogs — and vote Democratic".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_note-20">[21]</a>

The federal courthouse, the Thomas F. Eagleton Building in St. Louis, is named in honor of him.

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_percent" title="1000 percent">1000 percent</a></li>

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<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-0">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tv.com/episode-355/episode/95741/summary.html?q=eagleton&tag=search_results;title;4">What's My Line?: EPISODE #355 Episode Summary on TV.com</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-stlpd-1">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-stlpd_1-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-stlpd_1-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/pd125.nsf/0/6C7926B9C0966F6486256E04006BEC5F?OpenDocument">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-PCOLKansascitystar-2">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLKansascitystar_2-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLKansascitystar_2-1">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLKansascitystar_2-2">c</a> Kansas City Star. "With another disclosure, Novak bedevils the dead" by Steve Kraske. July 28, 2007. The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/columnists/steve_kraske/story/209499.html">original story</a> is a dead link. An archival copy is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/2204062.html">available here</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071018194343/http://www.kansascity.com/news/columnists/steve_kraske/story/209499.html">here</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-PCOLColumbiatribune-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLColumbiatribune_3-0">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2007/aug/20070819Feat004.asp">Columbia Tribune. "A slice of history: Biographers of the late U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri will find some vivid anecdotes when they comb through his large collection of journals, letters and transcripts housed in Columbia" by Terry Ganey. August 19, 2007</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-4">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dAQuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HzMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6956,894523&dq=amnesty+abortion+and+acid&hl=en">Coalition Breaking by Victor Riesel</a> Rome News-Tribune (Rome, Georgia), July 6, 1972</li>

<li id="cite_note-PCOLMeetthepress-5">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLMeetthepress_5-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLMeetthepress_5-1">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLMeetthepress_5-2">c</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLMeetthepress_5-3">d</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLMeetthepress_5-4">e</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-PCOLMeetthepress_5-5">f</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19694666/page/7/">Meet the Press Transcript for July 15, 2007. "Interview with Robert Novak</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-6">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/opinion/29mcgovern.html">"George McGovern, Help Wanted"</a>, The New York Times, August 29, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-7">^{</a></span}> McGovern, George S., Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern, New York: Random House, 1977, pp. 214-215</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-8">^{</a></span}> McGovern, George S., Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism, New York: Random House, 1996, pp. 97</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-9">^{</a></span}> Marano, Richard Michael, Vote Your Conscience: The Last Campaign of George McGovern, Praeger Publishers, 2003, pp. 7</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-10">^{</a></span}> The Washington Post, "George McGovern & the Coldest Plunge", Paul Hendrickson, September 28, 1983</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-11">^{</a></span}> The New York Times, "'Trashing' Candidates" (op-ed), George McGovern, May 11, 1983</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-12">^{</a></span}> Theodore White, The Making of the President, 1972 (1973)</li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-13">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/26/MN9NVQGO2.DTL">Obama bounces back - speech seemed to help</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-14">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thompsoncoburn.com/firm/thomas-f-eagleton-scholarship.aspx">Thomas F. Eagleton Scholarship</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-15">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te011601hw.htm">Ronnie white-Record on civil rights</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-stemcell-16">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-stemcell_16-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-stemcell_16-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061106174015/http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/05/stemcells.catholics.ap/index.html">Catholic group fights church leaders on stem cell research</a> CNN</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-17">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mcgoverncenter.com/council.htm">Council of Elders, McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service, Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-18">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/73819-1">C-SPAN Video Library, My Daughter's Struggle with Alcoholism, featuring former U.S. Senators George McGovern and Thomas Eagleton, The Library, Ltd., St. Louis, Missouri, July 23, 1996</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-19">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/8981.html">Washington University Record</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton#cite_ref-20">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17559686/">Eagleton's last wish: 'Be kind to dogs' - Politics - MSNBC.com</a></li>

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<h2>Further reading</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Clinton, Bill</a> (2005). My Life. Vintage. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/140003003X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1-4000-3003-X</a>.</li>

<li>Giglio, James N. "The Eagleton Affair: Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern, and the 1972 Vice Presidential Nomination," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Dec 2009, Vol. 39 Issue 4, pp 647–676</li>

<li>Giglio, James N. Call Me Tom: The Life of Thomas F. Eagleton (University of Missouri Press; 2011) 328 pages</li>

<li>White, Theodore. The Making of the President, 1972 (1973)</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879139,00.html">"McGovern's First Crisis: The Eagleton Affair" Time August 7, 1972, cover story</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906201,00.html">"George McGovern Finally Finds a Veep" Time August 14, 1972, cover story</a></li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000004">Thomas Eagleton</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tjrhino1.umsl.edu/whmc/view.php?description_get=Eagleton">Thomas Eagleton Photographs from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Missouri%E2%80%93St._Louis" title="University of Missouri–St. Louis">University of Missouri–St. Louis</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19720724,00.html">Time magazine</a> — July 24, 1972 cover article</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19720807,00.html">Time magazine</a> — August 7, 1972 cover article on withdrawal</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/clipview/index.jsp?id=0918">History Channel on Eagleton's withdrawal speech</a></li>

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