Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Many of you know I'm re reading Hunter Thompson's classic from the '72 campaign during which he covered McGovern, Lindsay and Muskie. Here's a funny excerpt . . . .

"They ran a very tight ship. Nixon rarely appeared, and when he did nobody in the press corps ever got within ten feet of him, except now and then by special appointment for cautious interviews. Getting assigned to cover Nixon in '68 was like being sentencedd to six months in a Holiday Inn. It never occurred to me that anything could be worse than getting stuck on another Nixon campaign, so it came as a definite shock to find that hanging around Florida with Ed Muskie was even duller and more depressing than traveling with Evil Dick himself."