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7 unusual facts about Edmund Muskie


Donald G. Alexander

He served in Washington, D.C. as an assistant to Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie and as Legislative Counsel for the National League of Cities.

James Archibald

He was appointed to the Superior Court in 1957 by Governor Edmund Muskie.

John F. Melby

Secretary of State Edmund Muskie restored Melby's security clearance in December 1980 and hired him to work as a consultant on the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict for several months.

Marilyn Berger

Berger reported that Richard Nixon White House staffer Ken Clawson had bragged to her about authoring the Canuck Letter, a forged letter to the editor of the Manchester Union Leader that played a large part in ending the campaign of Senator Edmund Muskie.

Peter Tarnoff

During his career as a Foreign Service Officer, Tarnoff served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance (1977–1981); Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Western Europe (1975–76); Special Assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1967); and Nigerian Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1966–67).

Tom Dine

In 1979 through 1980, he was an advisor to Senator Edmund Muskie on the nuclear weapons policy and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, as well as a defense and foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 478

In remarks made to the Council, then-U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said "The question of Jerusalem must be addressed in the context of negotiations for a comprehensive, just and lasting Middle East peace."


Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1976

Instead, Carter invited Senators Edmund Muskie, John Glenn, Walter Mondale, and Congressmen Peter W. Rodino to visit his home in Plains, Georgia, for personal interviews, while Church, Henry M. Jackson, and Adlai Stevenson III would be interviewed at the convention in New York.

Maine gubernatorial election, 1970

Another reason for Erwin's lose was attributed to Edmund Muskie's coattails, a popular candidate for United States Senator from Maine that year.

Maine gubernatorial election, 1974

He had bested Joseph Brennan in the Democratic primary, and had the backing of popular former Governor, and then Maine Senator Edmund Muskie.


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