Was Vice Presidential candidate Tom Eagleton properly vetted?

Question

Should we expect the Presidential candidate to know everything about the running mate they select?

Answer 1

Evidently not.

Eagleton was kind of the turning point where serious vetting was done on prospective VP candidates.

As to the first answerer's comment that people today wouldn't care if a candidate had been to a psychiatrist, you  should remember only 20 years ago when it was revealted that Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis has been to a councilor during his wife's battle with alchoholism. It did severe damage to his candidicy. I am not sure much has changed since then.

To be fair, also, Eagleton had undergone electroconvolusive shock therapy which is indicative of a much more severe mental problem then situational depression like Dukakis had.

Answer 2

I believe he was but people back then were not accepting of anyone who'd been to a shrink. Now it would not be a big deal.