Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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That was Mankiewicz talking, and here’s the explanation he gave for why he lied to all the reporters, including me, who had asked him about this… Because I knew… I had that exact quote from several people on the McGovern staff, who wanted to release it. In this chronicle he follows various democratic hopefuls around the country during their campaigns to win the democratic nomination for the office of the president. McGovern said that “half of the Nixon vote, given the chance, would have gone even further to the right! His insights are cutting, his remarks are wild and he's got some of the fiercest intellect in the land. My first loss came in New Hampshire, where I felt guilty for taking advantage of one of McGovern’s staffers who wanted to bet that George would get more than 35% of the vote; and I lost when he wound up with 37.

I half-expected him to ask me why a girl had been arrested in my hotel room, but it was clear from the look on his face that his mind had already moved on to whatever might come next.

Louis to do what I could to get hold of some of those records to try to find out more about it, I was treated like someone who’d come up to the North Pole to blackmail Santa Claus, even by your people. He was perceived, then, as a dingbat – not as a flaming radical – a lot of people seem to think that was one of the images that hurt him.

If you give 25 million people a new toy, the odds are pretty good that a lot of them will try it at least once,” he offers at one point. You said the candidates… the staff, and the press… were all on The Edge … is politics the greatest Edge you’ve discovered? It scared the hell out of me … But we made it to the terminal and I bought a ticket for Denver, and… just got the hell out of Washington.

But it would naturally have to involve a drastic change of some kind… Maybe just an atavistic endeavor, but there’s no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. He was told by True Davis, who had run against Eagleton in the Democratic primary for senator in 1968 in Missouri, that the records were in a box in an office in St.