The DNC's Struggle to Get the Nomination for Vice President

Biden was not liked by any of the main party powers Especially George Meany. The DNC had to scramble to get the nomination and they were so focused on it that they never even really thought about who should be VP until right before they were supposed to go and accept the nomination. They ended up going with a guy who had been opposed significantly to McGovern in the primary, but he was a Catholic from Missouri. Then during the campaign almost as soon as they start campaigning it comes out that he not only had been hospitalized for mental illness But he received a lecture of shock treatment which in 1972 is viewed Very very badly. That's viewed as that is someone who's unstable who can't be