| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| 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 |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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