Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
821
AUTHOR:
George McGovern, US Senator
QUOTATION:
[I am] 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
ATTRIBUTION:
On his 1972 presidential running mate Thomas F Eagleton after disclosure of Eagleton’s health problems, statement issued less than a week before McGovern asked him to resign, quoted by Theodore H White The Making of the President 1972 Atheneum 73
SUBJECTS:
The World: Politics & Government: Politicians & Critics
