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  Edmund Muskie - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine, the son of Roman Catholic Polish immigrants.
Muskie became one of the first environmentalists to enter the U.S. Senate and was a leading campaigner for new and stronger measures to curb pollution and provide a cleaner environment.
Muskie's broadcast was seen as thoughtful and definitive in comparison to the message of President Nixon, who appearing in fl and white, seemed harsh and paranoid over unrest in the nation over Vietnam and the economy.
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 Edmund Muskie dies at age 81
Muskie was born in Rumford, a western Maine paper mill town, on March 28, 1914, the son of Stephen and Josephine Muskie.
Muskie spent six years in the Maine House, becoming minority leader of the small group of Democrats in the Republican-dominated Legislature, and was chosen as his party's gubernatorial candidate in 1954.
Muskie, whose home state had felt the bad effects of polluted air and water, was in the forefront of those who drafted the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1965 Water Quality Act and pushed them through the Senate.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/03/26/muskie.html   (1169 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Jane Muskie Dies; Husband's Emotional Defense Turned Race
Jane Gray Muskie, 77, the low-key but strong-willed wife of Edmund S. Muskie, whose 1972 presidential bid fizzled after he appeared to cry at a news conference in which he defended his wife from a negative newspaper editorial, died Dec. 25 at her home in Bethesda.
Muskie, a former bookkeeper and model, was a hard-working supporter of her husband's political career as the former lawyer ascended the ranks of the Democratic Party from his start in the Maine legislature.
Muskie, who was pregnant with their fourth child, suddenly found herself trying to raise a family while keeping pace with a demanding social calendar.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A32670-2004Dec28?language=printer   (514 words)

  
 Edmund Sixtus Muskie, Lieutenant, United States Navy
Muskie was born in the small paper mill town of Rumford, Maine, on March 28, 1914.
Muskie was a leading voice on domestic issues during his 22 years in the Senate, and was known for his hard-line environmental stances.
Jane Gray was born in Waterville, Maine, and married Edmund Muskie in 1948, two years after he had been elected to the Maine House of Representatives.
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 The Campaign for the Muskie School | Opportunities for Giving | Muskie School of Public Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Muskie School needs a permanent home which will provide a central location for research and administrative offices, presenting a visible and prominent sign of the School's role as valuable resource for the state and the nation.
As the Muskie School of Public Service works to build a home that is worthy of its promise as a preeminent institution of higher learning, we seek to recognize the wide range of notable contributions that Maine citizens have made to their communities, state and nation.
Jane Gray Muskie has contributed to public life in many ways and has dedicated over 40 years of her life in support of Senator Edmund S. Muskie's work.
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 Edmund Muskie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Edmund Muskie Edmund Sixtus Muskie (''Edmund Marciszewski'') (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was a Polish-American politician from Maine.
Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine, the son of Catholic Polish immigrants.
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 Around the Nation | www.azstarnet.com ®
AUGUSTA - Jane Gray Muskie, whose husband, Edmund Muskie's, 1972 presidential campaign collapsed after he defended her honor with what appeared to be tears in his eyes, has died.
Muskie accompanied her husband during his rise in Democratic politics from the Maine Legislature to the governor's house, the U.S. Senate and to President Jimmy Carter's Cabinet as secretary of state.
Edmund Muskie choked up several times during the speech, and several news organizations reported that he cried, but a dispute has persisted for years whether it was tears or melted snowflakes on his face.
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 Jane Muskie, 77, widow of Maine senator - The Boston Globe
asserted that Muskie cried during the speech, and Republicans seized on the report to float claims that the candidate was emotionally unstable and unfit to be president.
Muskie insisted until his death, with support from many reporters and other observers, that the shiny liquid seen on his face was not tears but melting snowflakes.
Muskie, who had five children, will be buried next to her husband in Arlington National Cemetery.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/12/30/jane_muskie_77_widow_of_famous_senator   (539 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Jane Muskie
Jane Gray Muskie (February 12, 1927- December 25, 2004) was the widow of U.S. senator and 1968 vice presidential candidate Edmund Muskie, whose 1972 presidential campaign collapsed after he emotionally defended Mrs.
An emotional Edmund Muskie defended his wife outside the newspaper's offices in the cold New Hampshire winter.
Senator Muskie appeared to cry, but he later claimed that melted snowflakes, not tears, were streaming down his face.
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 Role of first ladies changed since Jane Muskie's era
Interestingly, the central figure in that novel is a vice president's independent-minded wife who engages in anti-war activism embarrassing to her husband and is later pursued by mysterious forces after uncovering high-level government corruption.
It was all a long way from a time at the Blaine House when Jane Muskie was expected to fill the traditional role of stay-at-home mother, staff overseer and official hostess of countless receptions and teas.
Jane Muskie was only 27 years old -- her husband was 40 -- when she became Maine's first lady.
kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com /view/columns/1253283.shtml   (789 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Remembering Ed Muskie
During the New Hampshire primary, Muskie choked with anger and seemed to cry because of a couple of nasty articles in the "Manchester Union Leader." One article proved to be a hoax.
Muskie then went back to the Senate and headed the powerful Budget Committee until President Carter tapped him to be Secretary of State in 1980.
Ed Muskie went on from there to be elected, to be reelected in a landslide, the first Democrat ever popularly elected from the state of Maine in its history.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/muskie_3-26.html   (1718 words)

  
 Husband defended her in pivotal speech | The San Diego Union-Tribune
AUGUSTA, Maine – Jane Gray Muskie, whose husband Edmund Muskie's 1972 presidential campaign collapsed after he defended her honor with what appeared to be tears in his eyes, has died.
Muskie, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, died at her home in Bethesda, Md., on Christmas Day, Maine Gov. John Baldacci said.
Muskie accompanied her husband during his rise in Democratic politics from the Maine Legislature to the governor's house, the U.S. Senate and to President Carter's Cabinet as secretary of state.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041229/news_1n29muskie.html   (332 words)

  
 NPR : African-American Women in Congress
She never ran for office, but she played a key role in the campaigns of her husband, Ed Muskie, who served as Maine's governor and then senator, and who also was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1968 and a contender for the 1972 presidential nomination.
To this day, the debate goes on whether Muskie cried during his emotional attack on Loeb; either way, the incident was thought to have damaged his candidacy.
Muskie won New Hampshire, but not nearly by the margin the pundits expected, and Sen. George McGovern (D-SD), the second-place finisher, went on to win the nomination.
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 Martha Muskie, Military Daughter
Martha Muskie, 47, a former vocational rehabilitation program specialist at the Department of Education, died of lupus January 2, 2006, at her home in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Muskie, through her work with the Multiple Sclerosis Society and U.S. Department of Education, focused on a number of issues related to women and disabilities.
Muskie will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to her parents on January 20, 2006.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /martha-muskie.htm   (332 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Muskie,
Muskie, Edmund Sixtus 1914-96, U.S. Senator (1959-80), b.
Muskie's condition remains critical: Ex-senator had bypass after heart attack.(Nation)
Muskie legends; Muskie aficionado Bob Leff put down his rod and reel - temporarily - to become muskie historian and videographer and attempt to capture the lore, and allure, of big-time muskie fishing earlier this century.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Muskie,   (483 words)

  
 Comprehensive information and links about Edmund Muskie
Edmund Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was a Polish-American politician from Maine.
Muskie had been seen giving a speech in public and weeping.
Muskie's papers are kept at the Edmund S. Archives at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
www.quicknation.com /Edmund_Muskie.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Bates College | 03-26-96 STATEMENT ON EDMUND S. MUSKIE
The death of Senator Muskie robs the world of an eloquent speaker for the dispossessed, for a clean environment and for decency in public life.
His legacy is everywhere we look; and, as former President Jimmy Carter said during the dedication of the Muskie Archives in 1985, ÔEd Muskie should have been president of the United States.Õ Although he fell short of that goal, Senator Muskie never lost the respect of all who knew him, including his political adversaries.
On behalf of the Bates community I convey condolences to Jane Muskie and their children.
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 Edmund Muskie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muskie was born Edmund Sixtus Muskie in Rumford, Maine, the son of Roman Catholic Polish immigrants.
The Muskie family name was changed from Marciszewski to Muskie when his father, Stephen, arrived in the United States at Ellis Island.
The nation was at war in Vietnam and President Richard Nixon's war policies (and foreign policy, more generally) promised to be a major issue in the campaign.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ed_Muskie   (1259 words)

  
 TIME.com: Humphrey's Polish Yankee -- Sep. 6, 1968 -- Page 2
Muskie's family should be an asset to the ticket.
Jane Muskie, who was a Protestant and a Republican when, as a clerk in a Waterville dress shop, she first met her future husband in 1946, later converted to his political and religious faiths.
Muskie loves his work and independence as a Senator, and despite his commanding speech at the convention, does not relish political campaigning.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,900316-2,00.html   (726 words)

  
 Kevin Baker
Loeb had infuriated Muskie by running a letter-to-the-editor claiming that Muskie laughed at derogatory jokes about Canucks, and by inflating press reports about Jane Muskie’s occasional use of curse words into a nasty, front-page editorial.
Muskie had been speaking bareheaded, after all, in the middle of a snowstorm.
Muskie was known to have a hot temper.
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 Bates College | Bates People in the News 2004
Jane Muskie, wife of the late Maine governor, senator, U.S. secretary of state and presidential candidate Edmund Muskie '36, died on Christmas Day in Washington, D.C. She was 77.
Jane Muskie stood by her husband through a long political career that included a 1968 campaign as running mate to Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, and Muskie's own 1972 White House attempt.
Chris Beam, archivist for the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates, said that Jane Muskie was perhaps the first wife of a national candidate to take an active public role in her husband's campaigns.
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 WASHINGTON TALK: BRIEFING; McCarthy-Muskie Team - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The authors, Abigail McCarthy, former wife of Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota, and Jane Muskie, wife of Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, were talking up their joint effort, ''One Woman Lost,'' at the Women's National Democratic Club yesterday.
Muskie said, ''but we have known intimately people who resembled them.'' Mrs.
Muskie worked on plotting and research and dealt with publishers, agents and lawyers as the seven-year project evolved.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / The Shriek Heard Round the World
Loeb had infuriated Muskie by printing a letter to the editor claiming that the candidate laughed at derogatory jokes about “Canucks” and by building a nasty front-page editorial out of press reports of Jane Muskie’s occasional use of strong language.
Muskie responded by pulling a flatbed truck up in front of the Union Leader’s offices and calling Loeb a “liar” and a “gutless coward.” Then something happened.
Temper or no, Muskie compiled an outstanding record as a governor, senator, and later Secretary of State, and as the Watergate investigations later revealed, the “Canuck letter” had come from inside the Nixon campaign, allegedly penned by the President’s deputy communications director, Ken Clawson.
americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2004/2/2004_2_34_print.shtml   (1812 words)

  
 The Edmund S. Muskie Foundation -- Memorial Dedication
On August 19, 2000, the town of Rumford, Maine, dedicated a memorial to Ed Muskie, who was born and grew up there.
Attending the afternoon ceremony along the banks of the Androscoggin River were Muskie family members and friends, including Jane Muskie, five Muskie children, and seven grandchildren.
Pictured at top are members of the Muskie family at the dedication ceremony.
www.muskiefoundation.org /archive.memorialdedication.html   (264 words)

  
 The Edmund S. Muskie Foundation -- Campaign Update
The Muskie Family, located from Washington, DC to Maine, has pledged a significant gift to the Muskie Campaign.
Her ongoing commitment to public service is a wonderful example of the legacy that all the members of the Muskie family have carried on in serving our country.
This center will complement the Muskie facilities: Muskie will have a 250person auditorium with sophisticated communications technology and the Education Center is planning to have a 500-person auditorium for large events, such as convocation as well as a 1,200 car parking facility.
www.muskiefoundation.org /campaignupdate.0402.html   (854 words)

  
 A debate worth having - Hugh Hewitt details Democrat debacles, Daschle's 'Muskie moment'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
He had his "Muskie moment." In early 1972, then-candidate for president Edmund Muskie stood outside the Manchester Union Leader and denounced the paper's coverage of his wife.
Muskie, the wife of a presidential contender, had received mental health treatment.
A few months after Jane Muskie's mental health was questioned in NH, Senator George Stanley McGovern dropped Thomas F. Eagleton as his V.P. choice and substituted with R. Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy in-law and IL native.
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 From 'I am not a kook' to gay-gene TV show scene   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The House and the Senate took some time last week to honor the memory of Jane Gray Muskie, Waterville native and widow of former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie.
Martin recalled one morning when he had to drive the Muskies to an event in southern Maine, and he wasn't sure how to get there.
"Jane was riding in the back seat, and she said 'Go left,' " he said.
kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com /news/local/1447660.shtml   (840 words)

  
 TIME.com: Assessing a Presidency -- Aug. 18, 1980 -- Page 4
Ed Muskie proved to be warm and reasonable, even in disagreement.
Jane Muskie was a bit surprised over the President's enchantment, since such affairs have always been a vital part of official life.
The Muskies were asked back to dinner, and one day the Senator told his staff, "I don't want to hear any more anti-Carter talk." When Jimmy Carter needed a new Secretary of State, he did not have to think very long.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,948928-4,00.html   (682 words)

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