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Through a unique blend of leadership, courage, and foresight, Ed Muskie made it national policy to protect human health by protecting the air, the water, the land. And that policy, that philosophy, has spread across the geopolitical surface of the planet. Under his direction, the nation's environmental laws became a fabric.
5 de dic. de 2018 · Participating in the Nov. 29, 2018, panel discussion at the Muskie Archives recalling Edmund S. Muskie’s 1968 vice presidential campaign: Jane Fenderson Cabot was a campaign intern in 1968 and later a Muskie Senate staffer and assistant to Roslyn Carter. Eliot Cutler was Muskie’s assistant press secretary during the campaign before embarking on a law career.
Muskie’s opponents, one New York Times writer proclaimed in 1970, “think of Maine as a hick state that is justly celebrated for lobsters, potatoes, and summer holidays, but not for producing presidential candidates.”. By David Shribman From our April 2022 issue. To many, his name evokes little more than one of the great also-ran stories in contemporary American politics, a brief comet ...
Edmund Sixtus Muskie was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981, a United States senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice ...
30 de ene. de 2024 · Senator Muskie served for 22 years in the U.S. Senate from Maine and was extremely active in developing air pollution control legislation throughout the 1960s and 1970s. As chair of the Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Muskie established himself as the Senate's leader in ...
Edmund Sixtus Muskie, né Edmund Marciszewski le 28 mars 1914 à Rumford (Maine) et mort le 26 mars 1996 à Washington, D.C., est un homme politique américain d'origine polonaise. Membre du Parti démocrate, il est gouverneur de l’État du Maine entre 1955 et 1959, sénateur entre 1959 à 1980, candidat à la vice-présidence des États-Unis en 1968 et secrétaire d'État en 1980 dans l ...
Edmund Muskie (1980–1981) Edmund Sixtus Muskie was born March 28, 1914, in Rumsford, Maine. He graduated cum laude from Bates College in 1936 and went on to Cornell Law School. Elected governor of Maine in 1954, Muskie served two consecutive terms before being elected to the United States Senate in 1958. He was the Democratic candidate for ...
