McGovern took a break of several days during the campaign to clean his pool?
He must have given up by then.
Yup... the puzzling thing about the Watergate and Ellsberg break-ins is, WTH, Nixon took 49 out of 50 states — but a year earlier it wasn’t looking good for him, at least in his mind (in the Frost interview he admitted paranoia, although he didn’t exactly apply it to himself, just to the atmosphere at the White House). He’d have been better off just having his political foes die of “natural causes” instead of the stupid things he did okay. Or better yet, relax, STFU, whip their asses at the ballot box.