Thomas Eagleton
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Oct 15, 2026
Liz PeekGUEST
But meanwhile, there's been that seed of doubt planted in the voters in Texas's minds that maybe he was ill in some way that is not public publicly acceptable.
Liz PeekGUEST
Remember Thomas Eagleton? You're much too young to remember Thomas Eagleton.
Liz PeekGUEST
But he was someone that had a breakdown, and boy, he was gone in a nanosecond.
Liz PeekGUEST
That race, if you look at it, the recent polls are like a 1% poll.
Greg KellyHOST
His Democratic opponent was a guy named George McGovern who would go on to win one state, Massachusetts.
Greg KellyHOST
And his first running mate was a guy named Eagleton, Thomas Eagleton.
Greg KellyHOST
who was a senator, I believe, from Missouri.
Greg KellyHOST
And then it came out that, well, he was down in the dumps, and everybody gets down in the dumps, and he was depressed, and okay, people get depressed, but he got electroshock therapy for the whole situation.
Greg KellyHOST
So shall we? Yeah, this is 1973.
Greg KellyHOST
I think it might be Mike Wall.
Greg KellyHOST
They're talking about, it's a news report from back then about what Thomas Eagleton went through and how they yanked him from the campaign.
Greg KellyHOST
Because you can't be, you can't be undergoing, there are a lot of things you can do, but you can't be a United States Senator.
Greg KellyHOST
His Democratic opponent was a guy named George McGovern who would go on to win one state, Massachusetts.
Greg KellyHOST
And his first running mate was a guy named Eagleton, Thomas Eagleton, who was a senator, I believe, from Missouri.
Greg KellyHOST
And then it came out that, well, he was down in the dumps and everybody gets down in the dumps and he was depressed.
Greg KellyHOST
And, okay, people get depressed.
Greg KellyHOST
So shall we? Yeah, this is 1973.
Greg KellyHOST
I think it might be Mike Wallace.
Greg KellyHOST
They're talking about, it's a news report from back then about what Thomas Eagleton went through and how they yanked him from the campaign.
Greg KellyHOST
Because you can't be, you can't be undergoing, there are a lot of things you can do, but you can't be a United States Senator.
Jeffrey LordGUEST
And it does wind up with some of these people doing things and getting away with it.
Jake SmithHOST
Yeah, just post-convention, if you don't remember who Tom Eagleton was, he was the running mate for George McGovern in 1972 against Richard Nixon.
Jake SmithHOST
Now, I don't really think that Tom Eagleton... or Sergeant Shriver, who eventually became the running mate for George McGovern, would have made much of a difference.
Jake SmithHOST
Nixon was going to win in a landslide, which he did.
Jake SmithHOST
But Tom Eagleton and James Tallarico, they appear to have something in common, Jeffrey.
Jake SmithHOST
Tell us about Tom Eagleton, what you remember.
Jeffrey LordGUEST
Yeah, well, what I remember, and I was a politically active, I was chairman of the Franklin and Marshall College Republicans.
Jake SmithHOST
Even at that time, like me, I was a Republican since I was 12 years of age.
MarkHOST
Psychiatric treatment carried enough stigma to end a career.
MarkHOST
Five years later in the United States, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton was simply dropped from the ticket within three weeks of the election when it emerged he'd been treated for depression with electroshock therapy.
MarkHOST
In Victoria at the time, attempting suicide had been a criminal offence until that very year when Parliament took it out of the Crimes Act.
MarkHOST
Lifeline, the world's first telephone counselling service, had opened in Sydney only four years earlier.
Greg KellyHOST
I mean, he had already lied, so I don't know if the real answer was going to set him free.
Greg KellyHOST
Thomas Eagleton, it reminds me of that.
Greg KellyHOST
That was a vice president nominee, Democrat Party.
Greg KellyHOST
He was getting electroshock treatment.
Greg KellyHOST
I mean, he had already lied, so I don't know if the real answer was going to set him free.
Greg KellyHOST
Thomas Eagleton, it reminds me of that.
Greg KellyHOST
That was a vice president nominee, Democrat Party.
Greg KellyHOST
He was getting electroshock treatment.
Greg KellyHOST
I mean, he had already lied, so I don't know if the real answer was going to set him free.
Greg KellyHOST
Thomas Eagleton, it reminds me of that.
Greg KellyHOST
That was a vice president nominee, Democrat Party.
Greg KellyHOST
He was getting electroshock treatment.
Mark DavisHOST
Fetterman had a stroke, couldn't barely talk, and won.
Mark DavisHOST
Uh, he had the Thomas Eagleton thing in 1972-
Mike GallagherHOST
But Texans are, Texans are different
Mark DavisHOST
... that we, we are
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