i was assigned to go to missouri and write a profile on a tom eagleton. while i was in the airplane on the way to st. louis, and known to me, an anonymous caller telephoned and asked to speak to john knight, the founding patriarch of our company. the operator put him through to the grandson, and young jack night heard this caller say eagleton had a history of severe depression that had been treated with electroshock therapy on more than one occasion and the republicans knew about this and were going to use this as a dirty trick late in the campaign and that it needed to get out because something needed to be done. he urged the caller to call back with more detail. he had the presence of mind to realize there was not enough to do something with, and the caller is agreed to do so. i ended up not knowing this had taken place. i went to the dispatch and asked to look in the library at the clips, and i began reading through them. i saw there were gaps in his public life. this was a fellow who held public office for many years and was attorney general before he

i was assigned to go to missouri and write a profile tom eagleton. i was on the airplane to the way to st. louis. an anonymous caller telephoned "the detroit free press" and asked to speak to the founding patriarch of our company. the operator put the collar through to his grandson, who was an editorial writing in turn. young jack knight heard the caller say that eagleton had a history of severe depression that was treated with electroshock therapy on more than one occasion, and the republicans knew about this and would use it as a dirty trick late in the campaign, and it needed to get out now. something needed to be done. he urged the caller to call back with more detail. he had the presence of mind to realize there was not enough to do anything with. the caller promised to do so. i went into st. louis not knowing the call had taken place. i went straight to the st. louis post-dispatch and asked to look in their library. i saw that there were -- i got all of their eagleton clips. i saw there were these gaps in his public life. he had held public off