MILWAUKEE, April 5Like his hero George McGovern, Gene Pokorny, who managed the Senator's winning campaign in Wisconsin, takes a dry delight in surprising the people who underestimate him. McGovern, however, was sliding toward the Mankiewicz position, after conferring by phone with Dr. Karl Menninger, of the Menninger Clinic, and a depression specialist at the University of Virginia. The only awkward moment was when Eleanor McGovern, who hadnt wanted Tom as her husbands running mate in the first place, asked, Why didnt you tell George about this illness? To which Eagleton replied: We didnt think youd ask me if I did.. Bob, he said, I know this. We both knew that it was something we had to do, and that it was not going to produce a positive result. But I had genuine affection and admiration for Ted. Gene Pokorny was Chairman of Research International/Cambridge, a market research and consulting practice that is a unit of the Research International division of WPP, the world's largest marketing and communications services organization. I didnt try to hide them. It was like if you found a letter from an old friend whod written something terrible about you. You cannot tell a soul. By the time McGoverns chartered 727, Dakota Queen II (after the B-24 hed christened for Eleanor), made its final touchdown three hours late in Sioux Falls, it was past one a.m., and the temperature was near zero. But I was told that there were legal procedures, and I was reluctant to ask what they were, because anytime you ask a lawyer about anything, the answers no. The rest of the day was a killer: Rallies in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Wichita, Kansas, and Long Beach, California, enormous, emotional crowds at every stop. He was sweating profusely and seemed to be almost bouncing off the ceiling. Then, late Saturday evening, Clark Hoyt, a reporter from the Miami Herald, and Bob Boyd, Knight-Ridder's Washington Bureau chief, showed up unannounced in South Dakota. Very quietly, we got more than 300 delegates that way. Gene Pokorny - TubeNet The idea that political views have a genetic component is now widely accepted or at least widely accepted enough to become a field of study with its own name: genopolitics. When he heard from them, it was: Cant do it, boom, thats it., The formal end came the evening of Sunday, July 31, during a 90-minute meeting in the Marble Room of the U.S. Capitol. Neither finding had moved Kennedy, who repeatedly swore off any interest in being on the 1972 Democratic ticket.