SUN JOURNAL • February 6, 2022
A Bates College graduate, a former Maine governor, a longtime U.S. senator and his party’s vice presidential candidate in 1968, Muskie capped his career as secretary of state for President Jimmy Carter. He was known across the land for his service, his integrity and his love for his native Maine. When news came of Muskie’s death in 1996, one of his old Senate colleagues, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, urged people to look around if they wanted to see the memorial for Muskie. “Look around you at the air in our cities; at the Potomac River, or the Cuyahoga; at a cleaner environment from Maine to Montana; at a nation that is more healthy and more beautiful because of his work.”