European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and strip senator9 Soiu Doy a atm 31 1948 Muskie from lbs s Doghouse to National prominence Chicago a in his nine yours As Maine s first popularly elected democratic senator de Nuuuli s. Muskie has come along Way from Lyndon John son s Doghouse to the standings a master legislative tactician and cloakroom , Senate majority Leader Mike Mansfield Calls Muskie.54. A senator s senator a Man who eschews publicity works hard and has gained a Well de served reputation among his colleagues for integrity Fairdealing and when Muskie was picked by president Johnson to Shepherd Senate passage of air and water pollution legislation and the hotly disputed Model cities pro Gram a former White House aide noted the president regards Hamas a real powerhouse. He s one of the few liberals who s a match for the Southern Legisla Tive adds a Cabinet officer i you have a Domestic Bill that s really Tough and you need advice on How to get it through de Muskie s the Best Guy the Muskie method is solid Homework in legislative detail a referential diplomacy that avoids personal attacks on legislative opponents and an under stated eloquence that can Loose one Stem Winder of a speech. Paradoxically Muskie s sen ate prominence is due in part to an Early run in with then majority Leader Lyndon Johnson in 1959. Johnson asked the lanky 8-foot-5 freshman senator to vote with him in repulsing the Peren Nial move by Liberal senators to limit the Power of filibuster. Muskie refused. Johnson reciprocated by As signing Muskie his fourth fifth and sixth committee choices banking and currency Public works government had coveted a spot on the foreign relations commit tee. Muskie generally avoided National limelight for years but he shifted course last year by accepting chairmanship of the democratic senatorial Campaign committee. I thought it would be a Goodway of pulling my oar in the Senate said Muskie of the assignment to help finance and Chart the campaigns of demo cratic senatorial candidates. It brings wide contacts Inmany states and will teach me a lot of things he said. The contacts and political influence throughout the country Are Al ways useful to a his committee in those yearn were moribund. And Muskie says of the times i was frustrated lonely disillusioned lately however environmental pollution and Federal state relations have become hotshots. And Muskie has a big chunk of the action As chairman of the subcommittees on air and water pollution and intergovernmental relations. Further Muskie is a member of the democratic Senate leadership and was widely mentioned As possible successor to Mansfield As majority Leader. Muskie began building som National contacts in the 1950s when As the nation s first pol ish american governor he was a Star attraction for Midwest democrats at Pulaski Day Cere monies and Kosciusko was elected governor in 1954, ending 20 years of a publican Rule in the Maine Stair House. He was re elected j n1956 then made his stressful Senate bid in 1958. Muskie is Maine born. Thu. Son of Stephen i Lor who emigrated from Poland the name was later Anglia. A he was graduated Phi hot i Kappa from hates Coll,.,. A has a Law degree from Cornel Lafter a world War ii n in stint Muskie settled m water Ville and was elected to his frs of three terms in the Maine in 1946. Muskie married the former Jane Gray of we Temple m we and has five children ran any Mage from 7 to 19. He took up Golf two years uk0. And confides a congressional colleague manages to shoot in the 90s by hitting them Strain Shibut not lacked the conventional weapons Mccarthy could t Buck the system by Joseph e. Mohbat Chicago a sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy bucked the democratic party establishment with legions of breathless youngsters and none of the time honoured weapons and Wiles of the successful politician. He had no Money no name no political base no Organiza Tion no influential support. So he lost in the conventional sense of the word in that he failed to win his party s presidential nomination. But Mccarthy won something too especially in the Light of the rather limited goal he Setfor himself when he announced his candidacy nine months , it was merely to take the War in Vietnam before the american people personified in a candidate to allow those peo ple a vote on that War. Eugene Joseph Mccarthy also won his race in the sense that american politics May never be the same after the romantic adventure that began so quietly in the new Hamp Shire Snow last Winter. He was the leading Edge of the Avalanche that ultimately forced president Johnson to announce he would not seek another term. He spread throughout the Landa new belief that housewives clerks and College kids thou Sands and thousands of College kids could find themselves Niche and play a role in shaping the nation s future. He gave a new image an likeness to the word Politi there have been few if any like this former professor who rejected virtually every political orthodoxy and tradition spoke Low and avoided the car Nival trappings of a Politica Campaign whenever possible. Yet i these very victories Lay his ultimate political defeat by Hubert h. Humphrey in the convention. It was the untested kid against the pros pros who had not Only been in the game a longtime but happened to hold the reins of . Political Power atthe moment. The children s crusade did have the pros looking Back Over their shoulders from time Totime wondering Why Mccarthy refused to lie Down and die. But they never lost control of the Way things operate in a political party so Many decades old. Mccarthy lost too because in his 20 years in politics he had never developed a political base to which he could return for major support when the time came for the big move. He was an efficient senator Well liked in Minnesota but he had Little patronage to give out fewer political debts to collect. Mccarthy lost because he remained far out of the democratic club in a year when the convention was deeply entrenched within it. There was a yawning generation Gap Between the Mccarthy ites and the party Reg ulars. Neither spoke the other s Lan Guage or Ever really tried to. The regulars never could understand Why Mccarthy would not concede defeat when he lotto the late sen. Robert f. Ken Nedy in most of the primaries. Mccarthy went it alone Al most boasting in his quiet Way that he never asked for the sup port of major political figures big business big labor. He talked to these forces of course but rarely was his a peal much stronger than Hope you will give us some consideration in your general examination of the that was t playing the game and was another reason Mccarthy lost. Mccarthy lost because he had no lode of wealth to tap. His Campaign May be a million Dol Lars in the red now despite occasional generosity from a few benefactors. And for All the coins and Dollar Bills the kids tossed in the buckets he never did come up with the Cash to put across As Many National Televik bars political savvy Charm features of Jane Muskie la nuns and Ben. Eugene Mccarthy Sion spots As he would have liked. He lost because even after head been in the race Many months he was not a really Well known name never an easily recognizable Public figure to be stopped in the streets like Kennedy and certainly lacking the so called Charisma that turned so Many thousands on for the Kennedy in Chicago on the eve of the balloting he would bring himself to shake the hand of a passerby on Michigan Avenue and find himself having to announce hello i m sen. Mccarthy before getting a recognition. He lost because he could never generate and knew he could t so never tried the depth of whatever compassion he might have had for the Lack the mexican american the Indian the poor. I m not that Way and Iwon t try to be he said. They la have to understand my record. I just Don t generate the kind of response Bob Kenned did. We be two types of political styles and this is he inevitably appeared uncomfortable in settings that Are the staff of life for Normal political candidates. He had a pervasive hang up As his Young supporters would Call it about doing anything that seemed the least bit phony or staged. It kept him from indulging i such simple gestures As paying respect to the slain Kennedy when he appeared before the California delegation174 votes that had been pledged to Ken Nedy. All of these factors kept the presidential nomination from Gene Mccarthy s grasp. Yet even the political pros could not ignore the meaning of Mccarthy Campaign slogans the Man the people found and he stood up alone an something Waterville Maine a Jane Muskie has been through it ail before. In 1964, her husband. Edmun Sixtus Muskie was being considered for the democratic Vic presidential nomination. A Campaign style family photograph showing her five children was distributed to . Information Agency posts abroad in Case president Johnson appointed he husband. De Muskie whose craggy pro file contrasts sharply with his wife s pleasing round face did not see lightning strike. But Jane Muskie kept going on smiling and being a Good Politi can s her patience was re warded when Hubert h. Humphrey picked her husky husband for the no. 2 spot on the demo cratic ticket. The vivacious 41-year-old Brunette received the news inthe Muskie suite in a Chicago hotel and her reaction was i m sure this will be politics has been my life Ever since i married de 20years ago when he was minority Leader of the Maine she said. I loved being a governor wife and we be had a very Happy time while de was a senator so i m sure this will be wonder Ful mrs. Muskie whose children Range in age from 7 to 19, said she would make Campaign speeches when necessary but prefers travelling with her Hus band to campaigning on heroin. Mrs. Muskie s favorite occupations Are Reading every thing except fiction and bowl ing. She has a housekeeper but likes to do the work herself. The muskies live in a new England colonial House just across the Washington d.c.,Border in Maryland. They spend their Summers on the main coast and enjoy returning to their Hometown of Waterville. The family is roman Catholic and the children attend Paro Chial and private schools. Mrs. Muskie was born in Thi scentral m a i n e City and at tended High school Here until graduation in 1949. She met the aspiring Young democratic a Liticia and husband to be soon afterwards and. Seven years later she became one of the Youn Gest women Ever to occupy Testate House when Muskie was elected governor. In a traditionally Republican state being the wife of a Youn democratic governor was t easy. Many of our friends Are Active republicans she said then in 1955. We just can carry polities into our Friend ships just As we would t Reli burp ban edition col. James w. Camped cell Usa editor in it. Col. F. 5. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Mert Proctor managing editor Elmer d. Fran production m.in�0r Henry i. 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