Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAINE Senator Edmund Sixtus Muskie looks and sounds like the prototype of the ancestral Down-Easter. Craggy-faced, big-boned and monumentally tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.), he displays the New England legislator's characteristic attention to detail and distaste for florid rhetoric. It was hardly foreseeable before...
Unlike Agnew, who after less than two years as Governor of Maryland was little known among politicians outside his state until he received the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, Ed Muskie has a hard-earned reputation on Capitol Hill as a diligent and imaginative politician. As Maine's first Democratic Governor...
Muskie's preoccupation with the crisis of the cities is unusual in a man whose native state is predominantly rural. Yet even Maine has felt the deleterious effects of water and air pollution, and the Senator was in the forefront of those who drafted the 1963 Clean Air Act and...
Muskie's family should be an asset to the ticket. He and his wife have five children ("three queens and two jacks"), aged 19 to seven. Jane Muskie, who was a Protestant and a Republican when, as a clerk in a Waterville dress shop, she first met her future husband...
Muskie's friendships within the Democratic Party have been ecumenical. He was close to John Kennedy, is a friend of both Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey. However much he admires Humphrey, he did not accept the vice-presidential nomination with any excess of zeal. Muskie loves his work and independence...