
An antiwar California congressman, McCloskey defeated Shirley Temple Black in a special election before launching a long-shot bid for the 1972 G.O.P. nomination.
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In 1988, while working for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in Minneapolis—he was stumping for Hubert “Skip” Humphrey for the U.S. Senate—a revelation occurred out of the public sphere. As a witness to the event, it resonates today in the era of partisanship. It was an example of how politics really work when not viewed solely through the jaded lens of the media.
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