Sunday, March 4, 2007

ONE ROCK IN A LANDSLIDE: A man with a career of public service like that of Sen. Thomas Eagleton (Amherst '50) shouldn't be reduced to the answer to one trivia question, and yet, all most of us know of the man is that he's the one who briefly served as George McGovern's running mate until . . .

Well, let's not get into that. We know more about mental illness now than we did then, and with his passing today, we can learn more about Eagleton than that to which history books have reduced him. [ALOTT5MA hook: he helped lure the Rams from Los Angeles to St. Louis.]

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