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...Democrats were just as adamant in their desire to return liberal Claiborne Pell to a third term in the Senate as the Vietnamese are to preserve their national integrity Edmund Muskie and Edward Kennedy came in to join the fight for the Democrats and Jackie Onassis promised to campaign but had to cancel at the last minute...
...lived Irish laborers who struck during the conflict. ("No Democrat," he noted, "can be trusted, they are all disloyal more or less.") He believed in hard work, himself, human reason, and a Life Force. He must have been a very difficult man to live with. One Roebling son, Edmund, ran away and had himself jailed as a common vagrant to escape his father. His brother Washington would later write of the runaway that in jail he "was enjoying life for the first time...
Roberts, Kearns and other members of the seminar went to Washington in December 1970 at the expense of Senator Edmund S. Muskie (d-Maine). then front-runner for the Democratic nomination. They tried to sell Muskie on their issue-oriented approach. Roberts remembers that some of the younger Muskie staffers were sympathetic, but that older politicians in the room-confident that front-runners didn't need issues--weren't buying. So despite an invitation from Muskie's administrative assistant, Don Nicholls, to produce a serious draft of their campaign strategy, the Harvard group returned to Cambridge still looking...
...result of a heart attack he suffered last year. He has added a nap to his daily schedule and withdrawn from the position of lead-off questioner on the show's panel, taking over the more detached role of moderator. Still, flashes of the old Spivak occur. To Edmund Muskie, fence-straddling on the challenge to McGovern's California delegates at the Democratic Convention: "Senator, why is it so hard for you to come to a conclusion?" To Gloria Steinem, lamenting women's inferior status: "What is your explanation for this serious state of affairs in view...
...argument-and environmentalists do sometimes tend to ignore the price of their proposals-the President had few supporters. His own environmental administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus, had pointed out that the money could be spent over several years and urged Nixon to approve the legislation. Congressional Democrats spoke vehemently. Senator Edmund Muskie saw the veto primarily as a gesture in support of industrial polluters, and Senator George McGovern said the Administration's whole record on pollution was one of "hypocritical platitudes coupled with spineless inaction." Within two hours of the veto message, the Senate overrode the President by a vote...