Your Eagleton post is a good reminder of how much things have changed.
All Eagleton did was see a shrink for depression—he didn’t steal anything, run off with thousands of classified documents, run an international extortion slush fund, kill political enemies, none of it.
As I remember it, McGovern met with Eagleton’s doctors who warned him that Eagleton’s depression could return and would be a threat to the country if he were President.
For which he was hospitalized and received electroshock treatments.