Talk:Edmund Muskie

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Great contributions, Beanbatch, Bryan and Jengod!Kyle Andrew Brown 01:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I added the Draft Muskie information and link. John celona 23:10, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Senate career
Muskie's career in the U.S. Senate deserves a section. He is particularly remembered as architect of the Clean Air Act of 1970 (PL 91-604), which created the Environmental Protection Agency and led to both near-term and prolonged reductions in automobile and power-plant pollution. See Muskie's recollection of the 1970 and subsequent events in 1990, when major revisions strengthening that landmakr law were under consideration, at www.cleanairtrust.org/nepa2cercla.html. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.44.187.100 (talk) 13:34, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

History Reveals
"Because of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Spiro Agnew's apparent weakness as a candidate relative to Muskie, Humphrey was heard to remark that voters' uncertainties about whom to choose between the top two Presidential candidates should be resolved by their attitudes toward the Vice-Presidential candidates. History reveals that voters took his advice"
 * I'm pretty sure this statement is not NPOV. I don't have the Nixon book in front of me. But I would bet that was a sarcastic remark by Nixon about is opponent rather than a factual statement. 67.85.233.175 (talk) 17:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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Merge proposal
The page Edmund S. Muskie Day has recently been created. I suggest the article be merged into the biography, since, apart from honoring this statesman, the day itself seems to be marginally notable at best. Kleuske (talk) 12:19, 20 February 2018 (UTC)


 * WP:SOCK per Sockpuppet investigations/DonSpencer1

Hunter S. Thompson Ibogaine Rumor
It appears rather common to hear Edmund Muskie's name brought up in relation to a rumor by Hunter S. Thompson in Rolling Stone that he used ibogaine: <<So on May 11, 1972, Thompson gave the campaign a jolt, filing a speculative story through a primitive version of a fax machine he called the Mojo Wire. Describing Muskie as a competitive political animal who would never back away from a challenge, Thompson couldn’t understand why the senator had suddenly become rigid and unresponsive—seeming to read directly from a script—but he took one hilarious shot at figuring it out.

“Not much has been written about the Ibogaine Effect as a serious factor in the presidential campaign,” Thompson wrote in an article he later claimed was never meant to be taken at face value. In it, he declares, “word leaked out that some of Muskie’s top advisers called in a Brazilian doctor who was said to be treating the candidate with ‘some kind of strange drug.”

The drug Hunter claimed Muskie was being treated with was a little-known root called Tabernanthe Iboga or Ibogaine. “It has been used for centuries by natives of Africa, Asia, and South America in conjunction with fetishistic and mythical ceremonies,” reads the excerpt from a study by PharmChem Laboratories, which was included in the Rolling Stone story:

“At a dose of 300 mg., given orally, the subject experiences visions, changes of perception of the environment, and delusions or alterations of thinking,” the study concludes: “Ibogaine produces a state of drowsiness in which the subject does not wish to move, open his eyes, or be aware of his environment.” >>source

suggestion: add a section to address and include some information on the matter on the Edmund Muskie page rigsby (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 02:14, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

non-RS website
This website – http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/muskie.htm – was used in the article. But it is not RS. Rather, it is WP:SPS with WP:LINKVIO. (And it does not use a secure HTTPS url. I post it here because it mentions an unidentified "Contemporary press report". We should not and need not use the website itself. – S. Rich (talk) 01:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Merge proposal (2nd)
I propose merging Edmund S. Muskie Internship Program into Edmund Muskie. A line or two in the legacy section would be perfectly fine, as the programme doesn't seem notable enough for its own article. Heavy Grasshopper (talk) 23:37, 6 April 2024 (UTC)