[Eugene McCarthy] allowed himself to be the fall guy in a game of 'Bachelor' played by Johnson at the National Convention, where Johnson pretended to be undecided until the last minute whether to name McCarthy or Humphrey as his running mate. Publicly spurned at the altar, McCarthy was then obliged, by Johnson, to deliver the speech placing Humphrey's name in nomination."

[Eugene McCarthy once spent a year in a monastery, planning to become a priest... after becoming engaged! His fiancee had to wait for him to change his mind and leave the order before they could marry.]