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How Pete McCloskey
i lost by winning
'The whole problem of
politics is that there's no
limit to what you can
do if you want to put the
time in.'
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
SAN MATEO.Calif.—
(NEA)—The hurt and puzzle
ment are still in Pete Mc-
Closkey’s face. He sits at his
desk in the old frame house
which is his home head
quarters, going through the
ritual of politics—the inces
sant telephoning, the ob
sequious politeness, the desk
side huddles. It’s demanded.
He’d chuck it all tomor
row if Cubby McCloskey, of
McLean, Va., told him to
come back.
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.,
representing the 17th Con
gressional district of north
ern California, has paid the
price of being a politician.
On June 7, the day after
Pete McCloskey won the Re
publican primary in his re
election bid for a third
straight term in Washington,
Cubby, his wife, asked him
to leave home.
It was a warm, comfort
able home—for Pete. When
he was there. There was a
tennis court. And a little
football field. It was in the
country, halfway between
the Capitol and Dulles Air
port, and through it revolved
his four growing children.
The congressman, who
could pass for younger than
44 if his wild shock of Ken-
nedy-type hair wasn’t turn
ing gray and the character
lines weren’t etching deep,
wants to be back. Hopes to.
Almost despairs that he
can’t.
“I told her,” he says,
‘‘that if she would even con
sider trying to reconcile, I’d
resign from the Congress to
morrow.”
But he won’t and he knows
it.
‘‘lt’s like the tiger,” he
said last summer. “He’s sat
isfied with milk until he
tastes blood. There’s a heady
atmosphere in Washington.
You’re at the center of pow
er, the decision-making proc
ess. All of us love the pow
er.”
McCloskey has tasted the
blood and it broke up his
marriage and the constant
pattern of his life.
“The whole problem of
politics,” he now reflects, “is
that there’s no limit to what
you can do if you want to
put the time in. The tend
ency is to put all your time
into it, with corresponding
lack of attention to the needs
and priorities of your family.
That’s exactly what I did
and I deserve every bit of
what she did. I can under
stand her feelings and dis
may over my commitment. I
don’t blame her at all.”
Now.
“If I had forseen this
would be the result,” he
says, “I wouldn’t have gone
into politics. None of this
was worth losing my wife.”
In 1971, by his own count,
he was away from home 207
days out of 365. He went to
Vietnam and Laos on his
Easter vacation. He took his
summer vacation to write a
book.
“My wife could see an
other 20 years of that,” he
says, "and who needs it.
“On a day of campaigning,
you get up at seven o’clock
and go through till midnight.
You’re in constant communi
cation with strangers. You
grow testy and frustrated
and less sensitive to the
problems of people around
•you because you’re so
wrapped up in your own.
You become dehumanized.”
It started for Pete McClos
key when he went to Wash
ington half a dozen years
ago as the exemplar for all
good, young Republicans, the
Marine war hero who once
volunteered for Vietnam,
who had upset Shirley Tem
ple Black in a special con
gressional election.
“Cubby and I,” he muses,
“had spent 18 years of mar
riage literally building a
lovely home in Portola Val
ley, in the finest place you
could ask to live in the world,
living the best possible life. I
had a successful law prac
tice.
“Then you ask your wife
to uproot. We sell that home, -
bring the children to Wash
ington, get accepted to a new
environment and then the
children go away to school.
“A woman turns to some
need for her own identity,
her own self-respect. Some
body said to me, ‘Your wife
is a very strong, competent
person and doesn’t relish the
role of being subordinated to
your activities on all oc
casions.’
“If I’d realized this a year
earlier, our marriage might
still be together. I took her
for granted.”
Since the marriage broke
up. Cubby McCloskey took a
real estate license in Vir
ginia.
“Last month,” notes Mc-
Closkey, "she sold three
homes and probably earned
twice as much money in
commissions as I’m earning
as a member of Congress.
It’s the first time in her life
she’s ever worked and she’s
been tremendously success
ful.”
The McCloskey children
have also dispersed, but in
a more natural way. Nancy,
21, and Peter 19, are in col
lege in California. John, 17,
went back to friends in
Portola Valley. Kathleen, 13,
remains with her mother,
but the Congressman took
her on an eight-day tour of
New England this summer.
“Kathie,” he says proudly,
“is something else. She gets
straight A’s and is a self
contained little girl. The only
problem is I don’t want to
interfere. You really miss
that seeing her every night.”
Above all, there is a sense
of emptiness.
"My particular wife,” says
McCloskey with feeling,
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MR DR. LAWRENCE E. LAMB
smear effective
By Lawrence Lamb, M.D.
Dear Dr. Lamb —I was
shocked recently to read that
the Pap smear in the best
laboratories across the coun
try can detect only up to 50
per cent of women’s can
cers and that it is so ineffec
tive because it frequently
misses cancer of the upper
womb. It only detects can
cer of the mouth of the
womb (cervix). Is this true?
I also read that a new
“Gravlee Jet Washer” has
been invented which detects
100 per cent accurately and
that 3,500 women died from
cancer of the upper womb
in 1970. Is this true? What is
the “Gravlee Jet Washer”
test and why are doctors
not using it when it is ef
ficient, cheap and reliable.
We women have believed
that if our Pap smear shows
negative we are perfectly
sate. Previously the only
sure test for detection of can
cer of the womb was a dila
tation and curettage (D & C).
Dear Reader—Don’t knock
the Pap test. It has made a
wonderful contribution to
health. The equal number of
deaths from cervical cancer
“was a very big part of
everything I did. I just put
a tremendous amount of re
liance on her and the home
she furnished. She put every
thing into the marriage and
.1 took everything out in order
to wage these political fights.
“So losing her was a tre
mendous blow. I’ve come
around to the point of view
that your family and you as
a human being are more im
portant than your political
success.”
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and endometrial cancer
(cancer of the upper womb)
is only because the Pap test
and education about cervical
cancer have been so success
ful. As recently as 1940 there
were eight cancer deaths
from cervical cancer to
every death caused by can
cer of the upper womb. The
change is because the cam
paign against cervical can
cer has been so successful.
So, let’s give credit where
credit is due.
Cancer in the upper womb
is normally closed off from
the vaginal vault and could
not be detected without a
dilatation and c'urettage (D &
C) which" involved a general
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anesthetic and operative pro
cedure. This was the pro
cedure that was done when
ever a woman had any un
explained bleeding and the
advice to all women to go
immediately and seek medi
cal attention if they have any
unexplained bleeding still
applies. Early examination
can save people’s lives. In
fact, at least one woman
went to see her doctor, even
though she had had a recent
examination, because of this
warning in this column and
as a result had an early di
agnosis and cure of cancer
that would otherwise have
gone undetected.