MTP Minute: Eleanor McGovern on mental health and Thomas Eagleton

In 1972, Eleanor McGovern joined Meet the Press to discuss the mental health of Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who had just been removed as her husband’s running mate after he was hospitalized for depression.

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