Adding insult to injury, Time reported its own survey: 76.7 percent said Eagleton’s medical record wouldn’t affect their vote. Time also noted, “An almost Mafia-like atmosphere developed amid the rustic charms of McGovern’s retreat.” They reported that, according to Eagleton, McGovern had told him that though he “had been under pressure” to fire him, “he’s one thousand percent behind me.” And that McGovern, like some Tammany hack filling out a “balanced ticket,” was only considering Roman Catholics. (They didn’t report what happened the previous week at McGovern headquarters in Los Angeles: all thirty phone lines were cut by vandals.)