Ah yes...Maurice Gravel.  I'll tell you a story.  I was part of the renegade young democratic group called Ad Hoc and at the state convention in Fairbanks we won half of the seats to the national convention in Miami after a key vote by Sam Kito and Joe Upickson.  Lidia Selkregg sat on the national credentials committee and made sure we got seated.  Egan was apopleptic.  As for me, I asked to be on the Rules Committee.  Gravel was running for Vice President but the party had it rigged for Mcgovern's choice Thomas Eagleton who turned out to be a nut case and had to be replaced down the road.  They didn't want Gravel to speak but I met with Gravel and we inserted a rule that a nominated candidate could choose who would give his seconding speech.  Seemed inocuous at the time, but when the time came, Gravel got in front of the convention and gave his own seconding speech and nothing they could do about it.  Not as rigged as what the republicans are trying to do to trump today but close.