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Then the McGovern forces went to bed, tired but very satisfied, remembering what David Brinkley had said in NBC's summation of the evening: "There are now three serious candidates for the Presidency in this country: Richard Nixon, Edmund Muskie and George McGovern." Even if it was unfair to Humphrey. Jackson and Lindsay, nobody was complaining. The next morning all would be on a plane on the way to Florida...
...Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Muskie of Maine! trumpeted the ads and leaflets) was seated in the first pew. He quietly got up, went up to the Communion rail and returned to his seat before anybody moved...
...cent of the vote tabulated, Wallace had 43 per cent. His nearest competitor, Minnesota Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, tallied 17 per cent of the vote, scoring strongly in Florida's black districts. Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington finished third with 14 per cent, while Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie finished a poor fourth with only 9 per cent...
...BELIEVE MUSKIE," the campaign buttons proclaim. "Trust Muskie," read the bumper stickers. Indeed, in a campaign almost totally devoid of real debate over issues, the central theme Senator Edmund Muskie and his staff are striking is that Muskie is honest and can be trusted, no used-car salesman is this "man from Maine." Yet in the final 36 hours before the polls opened in New Hampshire last week. Muskie and his staff were involved in four separate but related incidents of deceit that transformed the placid New Hampshire campaign into a cesspool of low blows and innuendos. Three of these...
Softened Stance. Last week, even as Wallace was flamboyantly exploiting the issue in Florida, three of his Democratic opponents hurried back to Washington to soften the Senate's antibusing stance (TIME, March 6). Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie and George McGovern-cast decisive votes as the Senate reversed its adoption of the extreme antibusing amendment pushed by Michigan Republican Robert Griffin. Carried by just three votes a week earlier-with all five Democratic presidential contenders absent -the Griffin amendment would have removed the courts' authority to order the busing of children...