the story had to do with tommy lee and how the story came out in the first place. give us the overview. >> in 1972, george mcgovern was nominated as the presidential nominee, and he chose as his nominee a relatively unknown senator named tom eagleton. i was a junior reporter covering the convention, and a thin jr. most person on the team, -- as the junior most person on the team, it was a different world then -- things sort of stopped in the fall. 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 urge