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Submissions from 1971 1971

SC0159 - Military briefing - ESM briefed by unidentified Israeli officer on Egyptian, Syrian and Soviet air capabilities in Middle East, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0160 - Remarks at Weitzman Institute, Israel - ESM on Purpose of institute, bomb shelters, Arabs, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0161 - Remarks on arrival at Cairo, then Press conference - ESM on Purpose of visit, Egyptian leaders, economic development, crisis in Middle East, Soviet role, Palestinian movement, U.S.-Egypt relations, trip to Soviet Union, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0162 - News report: Senator in Middle East - ABC-TV news report on senator's trip to Egypt, reported by Peter Jennings, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0163 - Remarks at Press conference - Muskie remarks to press he was glad to be in Moscow with Governor Averill Harriman, purpose of trip and then accepts questions from press about his meeting with Kosygin, other government officials, Middle East. Anti-Soviet demonstrations in New York, three areas to discuss regarding East-West relations at Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Berlin talks, and Middle East Talks. Why Soviet interest in European Security Conference, why Soviets devoted so much time in meeting with Muskie, trade, agreements regarding space, oceanography, computer science. Muskie gives his evaluation of Kosygin as person, then talks about Lake Baikal Project, environment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0164 - Press conference followed by Q & A session - ESM on East-West relations, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0165 - Press conference - ESM on Foreign policy, meeting with West German officials (many interruptions), 1972 campaign, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0167 - Remarks - ESM meeting with children, signing autographs, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0168 - Press conference - ESM Reaction to Nixon's speech, 1972 campaign, revenue sharing, Nixon's proposals, relations with Congress, Cambodia, Middle East, war powers, Vietnam, US-Soviet relations, San Francisco oil spill, labor relations, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0169 - Remarks upon Los Angeles arrival - ESM on Welfare, revenue sharing, 1972 campaign, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0170 - Remarks at Herb Young dinner - ESM on Trip to Middle East, Middle East crisis, Israel, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0171 - Speech at convention luncheon (incomplete) - ESM on 1972 campaign, elections, Democratic party, Nixon, welfare, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0172 - Press conference - ESM on Nixon's speech, 1972 campaign, revenue sharing, Vietnam, 91st Congress, Middle East, Cambodia, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0173 - Press conference - ESM on Tax reform, economy, budget, capital punishment, oil spill, movie workers, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0174 - Press conference - ESM on Employment, comments on Nixon's speech, relationship between President and Congress, lack of action by 91st Congress, revenue sharing, foreign policy, Cambodia, war powers, Cooper-Church, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Middle East, environment, oil spills, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0175 - Remarks - Muskie on arms build-up, US-Soviet relations, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0176 - Remarks followed by Q & A session - Muskie speaks on property taxes, economy, Vietnam, foreign policy, President Nixon and Latin America, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0178 - Speech - Muskie speaks to Council on Health Plan Alternatives about organized labor, health care, national health insurance, Health Security Act, Medicare and Medicaid, Muskie's proposals, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0179 - Press conference followed by Q & A session - Muskie speaks on 1972 campaign, Muskie's trip abroad, Soviet Union, Vietnam war, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0180 - Interview on TV "AM Show" - Muskie speaks on trip to Soviet Union, Middle East, Western Europe, environment, US-Soviet relations, revenue sharing, Vietnam war, Cambodia, Nixon's economic policy, race relations, supersonic transport, Alaskan pipeline, seniority system in Congress, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0181 - Speech - Muskie speaks on organized labor in U.S., consumer protection legislation, state of U.S. economy, supersonic transport, pollution control, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0182 - Statement to press - Muskie speaks on U.S. allies’ involvement in Vietnam, Cambodia, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0185 - Remarks - George Mitchell introduction of William Hathaway. Muskie speaks on Hathaway's appointment to Appropriations Committee, Peter Kyros, Kenneth Curtis, fundraising. Introduction: George Mitchell, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0186 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Senate whip, foreign policy, Middle East, environment, relations with Soviet Union, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0187 - Remarks - Muskie speaks on Democratic party, elections, farm policy, Middle East, campaign, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0188 - Meeting with Agricultural Leaders - Muskie speaks on Maine agriculture, U.S. agriculture problems, farm problems, Muskie's visit to North Carolina, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0189 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, campaign, revenue sharing, property tax, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0190 - Remarks - Muskie speaks on U.S. values, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0191 - Remarks - Laotian incursion, wage and price controls, inflation, Philadelphia mayor's race, Vietnam war, health care policies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0192 - Interview - Muskie on background, response of family to presidential aspirations, Abraham Lincoln, Muskie's personality, 1972 campaign, leisure activities, trip to Soviet Union, Middle East, generation gap, Vietnam War, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0193 - Remarks - Muskie speaks on home rule for Washington, D.C., Fauntroy's candidacy, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0195 - Statement on Water Pollution, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0196 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, environment, New Jersey in 1972, Davis-Bacon Act, labor, eighteen year old voters, Middle East, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0197 - Speech - Muskie speaks on 1958, 1964, 1970 elections, Harrison "Pete" Williams, Whitney Young, Nixon's State of the Union message, supersonic transport, discord in United States, economic development, United States ideals, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0198 - Speech - Muskie speaks on inflation, unemployment, state of U.S. economy, Nixon's economic policies, bill on regulation of securities industry, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0199 - Interview - Part 1 of 2 - Muskie speaks on his schedule, Whitney Young, black leadership, politics of confrontation, 1972 campaign, supersonic transport, unemployment, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, People's Republic of China-U.S. relations, Middle East, women in politics, Margaret Chase Smith, military draft, all-volunteer army, draft evasion, conscientious objection, J. Edgar Hoover, Ramsey Clark, Democratic party. Audio quality: Fair., Edmund S. Muskie

SC0200 - Interview - Part 2 of 2 - Muskie on meeting with Kosygin, press portrayal, Soviet Union, religion, birth control, Muskie's Catholicism, Kent State, abortion, Muskie's income, current mood on campus, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0201 - Interview - Muskie speaks on environmental issues, supersonic transport, oil refineries in Maine, economic development, auto emission standards, organized labor, water pollution bill, Nixon administration, policy on environmental protection, Earth Day, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0202 - Conference - Muskie speaks on his background and professional career, urban problems, revenue sharing, Nixon administration, economic policies, Vietnam war, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0203 - Meeting - Muskie addresses group assembled to generate new ideas that has chance of dealing with pressing domestic problems to come to him in any from, memos, speeches etc. When asked what is basic problem he states economics, lack of confidence and leadership, resource to support cities; welfare, grants and other programs have not worked, and would like ideas of what reform needs to be made or things can be done. Morris Abrams introduces members of group, and thanks them for attending, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0204 - Remarks - Muskie speaks on Severin Beliveau as chair of groups, Nixon administration's policies, Location incursion, Vietnam war, Nixon's economic policies, Vietnam veterans, supersonic transport, McGovern Commission guidelines, manned space program, agriculture, FBI surveillance, health care, help for drug addicts, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0206 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Jane Muskie's D-day speech, 1972 election, trips to Israel, Egypt, Soviet Union and Africa, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0207 - Speech - Muskie speaks on 1972 election, U.S. economy, Vietnam war, Cambodian and Location incursion, freedom of information, Pentagon propaganda, supersonic transport, Nixon administration, actions on labor statistics, news media, tape ends in mid speech, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0208 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on 1972 campaign, Vietnam war, revenue sharing, J. Edgar Hoover, ocean dumping, Nixon administration, economic policies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0209 - Speech - Muskie speaks on nuclear weapons, U.S. and Soviet arms race, strategic arms limitations talks, teamsters and farm workers unions, Vietnam war, South Africa, health costs, wage and price control, environment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0212 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Calley case, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0213 - Speech - Muskie on labor, Nixon administration, unemployment in Louisiana, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0214 - Speech - Muskie on poverty, government, social spending, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0215 - Speech - Muskie speaks on difficulty for blacks in education, minority rights in education, cost of higher education, taxes, economy, and extremely hostile questions, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0216 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance, economy, racism, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0217 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on mass transit, China, Vietnam, Calley case, Lockheed defense contracts, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0218 - Q & A session - Muskie speaks on revenue sharing, FBI surveillance, trip to Israel, Middle East, Egypt, U.S. policies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0219 - Speech - Muskie's speech on Vietnam, Democratic party, military budget, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0222 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on campaign 1972, China, Vietnam, prisoners of war, Governor Wallace, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0223 - Speech - Muskie on state legislatures, Democratic party, emerging South, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0224 - Speech - Muskie speaks on campaign 1972, politics in general, racism, integration, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0225 - Speech - Muskie speaks on South, state government, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0226 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on Earth Day, FBI, China, staff reorganization, economy, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0227 - Speech - Muskie speaks on directions of government, Vietnam, 18 year old vote, model cities program, pollution, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0228 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Polish immigrants, Vietnam, U.S. image also contains speech about urban problems addressed to southern audience, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0229 - Speech - Muskie speaks on problems of city government, urban life, South, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0230 - Speech - Muskie speaks on economics and welfare, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0231 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on revenue sharing, category eight programs, support for cities, Earth Day, Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0232 - Speech - Muskie speaks on labor, unions, recession, Vietnam veterans, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0233 - Speech - Muskie speaks on economy, unemployment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0234 - Speech - Muskie speaks on voter registration, Democratic party, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0235 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Reagan, Nixon, Vietnam, arms race, peace, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0236 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, Nixon, environment, Middle East, draft, voluntary army, inflation, wage and price controls, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0237 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on tasks of next president of U.S., political strategy, Vietnam, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, prisoners of war, John Connally, J. Edgar Hoover, revenue sharing and welfare, U.S economy, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0238 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Spiro Agnew, American Jewish Committee, Israel, national unity, visit to Africa, urban problems, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0239 - Speech - Muskie speaks on standing in polls, 1968 campaign, (Proxmire, Nelson and McGovern present), Spiro Agnew, national climate, urban problems, Indochina war, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0240 - Speech - Muskie speaks about Gaylord Nelson, Supersonic Transport Bill, Wisconsin Democrats, agricultural policy, Obey, Vietnam war, environment, urban problems, Vietnam Veterans against the War, economic problems, farm problems, national goals, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0241 - Speech - Hearing before Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution - Muskie speaks on economic dislocation, plant shut downs, pollution and ecology, worker layoffs, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0242 - Interview with Chuck Herbits for Maine Educational Television - Muskie speaks on 1972 campaign, effects of public life on a Mainer, ecology of Maine, volunteer army, military, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0243 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on economic dislocation, environmental protection, U.S. economy and Nixon policies, economic problems, pollution, automobiles, wage and price restraints, 1972 campaign, Vietnam war, abortion, large unions, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0244 - Speech - Muskie speaks on unemployment, industrial output, Nixon administration policies, economic dislocation, shoe industry, Vietnam war, job retraining, Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970, Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Muskie's stand on Vietnam war, campaign expenditures, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0245 - Statement - Hearing of Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations on revenue sharing - Muskie speaks on financial assistance to local government (Muskie as chair, Senator Howard Baker, George Berman, Doctor Walter Heller and Dewey Bartlett as witnesses). Case of National Citizens Committee for Revenue Sharing, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0246 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Mayor Daley, racial injustice in U.S., Spiro Agnew, civil rights legislation, employment, Vietnam veterans, inflation, urban crisis, health care problems, political coalition of blacks and whites, law and order, crime, white racism, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0247 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Governor Wendell Anderson, Humphrey, Mondale, 1968 election, Harmon Killibrew, racial equality, national crisis, economic problems, Nixon policies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, trip to Africa. Humphrey speaks on Governor Anderson, Muskie, Senator Mondale. Mondale speaks on Rabbi Raskis, Reverend Hudmutt, Governor Anderson, Humphrey, Muskie, Bob Berglund, state legislatures, fundraising, Vietnam war, current U.S Problems. Rabbi Raskis gives invocation, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0249 - Speech - Muskie speaks on support for Israel, Vietnam war, U.S attitudes and values, arms race in Middle East, peace talks, Soviet Jews, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0250 - Speech - Muskie speaks on arms control effects of proposed and existing weapons, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, nuclear superiority, Soviet responses, and arms race. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer speaks on strategic force posture versus Soviet Union. Senator Clifford P Case speaks on anti-ballistic missiles, Soviet missiles, defense budget. Senator Stuart Symington on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Joint Chiefs on Staff position, anti-ballistic missiles, U.S. versus Soviet military strategies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0251 - Remarks - Muskie speaks on 1972 campaign, Israel, U.S. policy toward Israel, Pentagon papers, Middle East, Rogers mission, trip to Soviet Union, Soviet Jews, John and Martha Mitchell, current mood in U.S., U.S. economy, Vietnam. Introduction: Marvin Davis, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0252 - Press conference - Begins in mid-speech with Muskie speaking on Nixon agricultural policies, aid to Texas and Oklahoma farmers, Vietnam, Pentagon papers, Mansfield amendment, Nixon economic policies, John Connally, 1972 campaign, Middle East, trip to Soviet Union, Mansfield resolution on Vietnam, U.S. troops in Europe, Willy Brandt, anti-ballistic missiles, U.S. relations with Soviet Union, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0253 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, U.S. role in world, Nixon policies, Pentagon papers, Stephen Engburg survey with C.O.R.D.S., pacification study groups in Vietnam, East Pakistan, Democratic criticism of Nixon, visit to South Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0254 - Remarks - Muskie speaks on his political career, generation gap, Vietnam war, U.S. relations with People's Republic of China, birth control, abortion, 1972 campaign, environmental impact of statements, North Carolina Democratic party, U.S. foreign policy, Middle East, U.S.-Soviet summit, U.S. economy, vice presidential choice, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0255 - Testimony - Hearings before subcommittees on Intergovernmental Relations and Executive Reorganization - Muskie speaks on heroin trade and efforts of U.S government, pending legislation, addiction rates, South East Asia drug trade, Nixon administration response, Vietnam veteran drug abuse screening, screening methods. Testimony by Dr. Jerome Jaffe, special assistant to president for Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, purpose of bill and office, nature of drug problem, federal responses, mission of Special Action Office, activities. Senator Percy speaks on Nixon's drug abuse control program, alcoholism, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0256 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on campaign schedule, Marvin Kalb, Pentagon Papers, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0259 - Speech - Muskie speaks on visit to drug center, talk with young people, current unrest in nation, Nixon economic program, Oregon's political climate, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0260 - Remarks - Muskie speaks on 1972 campaign, wage and price control, Nixon's economic policies, Democratic prospects. Cut off in mid-speech, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0261 - Press conference - Muskie on 1972 campaign, support from governors, black vice president, Attica, foreign policy, wage/ price controls, busing, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0263 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Congressman Staggers and Senator Randolph, West Virginia politics, 1972 campaign, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0264 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on black vice presidential candidate, Nixon's response, credibility crisis in U.S., 1972 campaign, John Lindsay, Vietnam war, Nixon economic policies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0265 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Spiro Agnew, attitude of students, environment, 18 year old vote, 1972 campaign, Middle East, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency and Army surveillance on Earth Day, income and welfare policies of Nixon, medical care system, Nixon economic policies, Supreme court candidate, Vietnam veterans, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0266 - Q & A session - Muskie speaks on his black vice presidential candidate statement, Nixon's response, busing, 1972 campaign, national health care, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0267 - Speech - Muskie speaks on his black vice presidential candidate statement, Lawton Chiles, problems of old age, U.S. government and expenditures, inflation, health problems of elderly, national health care, Medicare, busing, cost of drugs, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0268 - Speech - Muskie speaks on his career, current U.S. political mood, 1972 campaign, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0269 - Press conference - Muskie answers questions about Supreme Court appointment, Kennedy leading him in poll, Attica uprising becoming issue in campaign, Senator Jackson running against him as candidate, school busing, black vice president, white southerner on ticket, ecology and Vietnam war, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0270 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Governor West, 1972 campaign, visit to Tampa on previous day, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0271 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on black vice presidential candidate statement, black political party, women in politics, Governor Wallace, busing, school desegregation, Vietnam war, aid to parochial schools, U.S. economy, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0273 - Interview with David Culhane - Muskie speaks on black vice presidential candidate statement, U.S. racial problems, 1972 campaign, Edmund S. Muskie