On July 25, 1972, VP nominee Eagleton acknowledged that he had received electroshock therapy for clinical depression.

[TheRickles]

2. I remember it like it was yesterday. It just knocked the wind out of McG's sails, and set the stage for the blowout.

I was in college then, and had done a lot of canvassing for McGovern (including in NH, where his 37% in the primary put him on the map - a very exciting moment for us idealistic young anti-war activists!). It was the same college Eagleton had gone to (Amherst) and when he came back to campus to give a speech some months after the election, he was treated like a returning hero coming back home after the war.

I, on the other hand, was sitting there seething the whole time, not able to forgive him for his dishonesty, and wondering what might have been. And as I write this, I realize that I still haven't forgiven him. Something to work on....