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Attitudes toward political leaders and candidates with psychiatric diagnoses also evolved during this period\u2014although not at the same pace. From the 1940s through the early 1970s, such diagnoses damaged the careers of prominent officials including Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton. By the 1980s and 1990s, candidates like Tom Turnipseed and Lawton Chiles increasingly embraced candor with regard to their psychiatric diagnoses and histories, and voters often proved forgiving. A transitional event in this development was the now largely forgotten hospitalization of Gerald Ford\u2019s Secretary of the Interior, Stanley K. Hathaway, for depression in 1975. 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