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This series consists of three subseries organized by format - cassette tapes (SC), open-reel tapes (SR), and phonograph records (PR). The contents are similar in that they consist of recordings of Muskie's speeches and other public remarks, including question-and-answer sessions, press conferences, radio and television interviews and news broadcasts, campaign spots for broadcast over radio or television, and congressional hearings. Most were made by Muskie's Senate or campaign staff for later reference, although numerous items are recordings of Muskie appearances on various radio and television programs. The recordings also contain a large number of audio press releases, called "beepers", prepared by Muskie's senate staff.

Submissions from 1971 1971

SC0332 - Speech - Brandeis dinner, Statler Hilton, Boston, Massachusetts - Muskie speaks on Brandeis as a university, Louis Brandeis, Israel, judges, Supreme Court, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0333 - Press conference - Evers press conference, Old Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. - Muskie speaks on his position as civil rights and equality advocate, Vietnam war, Black Panthers, Water Quality Bill, Edmund S. Muskie, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and Berl Bernhard

SC0334 - Speech - Charlotte, North Carolina - Muskie speaks on Mecklenburg, North Carolina, making America great, Democratic primary in North Carolina, inflation, economy, unemployment, Vietnam, restoring prestige of United States, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0335 - Speech - Fundraiser, Sonesta Hotel, Miami, Florida - Muskie speaks on election campaign fund reform, peace, economy under Nixon, Israel, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0336 - Press conference - Moss endorsement, Washington, D.C. - Senator Moss and Governor Rampton support Muskie as presidential candidate but will support any other Democrat that may be selected. Muskie will not support troop withdrawal from Europe, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0337 - Speech - Governor Pat Lucey's office, Brookfield, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on Nixon's administration, pollution, welfare, tax credits, end of war in Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0338 - Speech - Midway Airport, Chicago, Illinois Muskie speaks on Rehnquist and civil rights, George Meany, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0339 - Speech - Fundraising dinner, Chicago, Illinois - Muskie speaks on campaign finance reform, U.S. image in world, foreign trade, welfare reform, civil liberties, Middle East, Israel, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0340 - Speech - Tenants Union, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Mayor Maier speaks on urban problems, freeways, followed by conversation with local citizens, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0341 - Speech - Muskie speaks on presidential campaign 1972, polls, Wisconsin, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0342 - Speech - Rotary, Madison, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on "Dollar check off" campaign financing reform, general finance reform, breakdown in confidence, urban housing, television, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0343 - Press release - Washington, D.C. Content: Muskie speaks on National Women's Advisory Council, convention delegates, campaign 1972, minorities, women, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0344 - Speech - Muskie speaks on campaign 1972, influence of presidential primaries, Nixon, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0345 - Press conference - St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Boston, Massachusetts - Muskie speaks on New Hampshire primary, primaries in general, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0346 - Speech - St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Boston, Massachusetts - Muskie speaks on presidency, education, voting, war and peace in world, aid for parochial schools, seniority in House and Senate, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0347 - Speech - University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Agnew, William Loeb, college students, Nixon's pollution policies, urban problems, William Rehnquist, monetary crisis, job training, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0348 - Speech - Democratic reception, Club Victore, Rochester, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Nixon and economy, unemployment, trade deficit, U.S. as debtor nation, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0349 - Speech - Democratic dinner, Baltimore, Maryland - Muskie speaks on leadership, campaign 1972, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0350 - Statement - Washington, D.C. - Muskie speaks on negative vote on Rehnquist, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0351 - Press conference - Muskie speaks on primary, 1972 campaign 1972. Tunney and Moretti endorse Muskie, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0352 - Speech - Reception, Houston, Texas - Muskie speaks on Nixon administration, Nixon veto of health care bill, childcare, unemployment, economy, Edmund S. Muskie and Ralph Yarborough

SC0353 - Speech - Abe Goldstein Awards Banquet, Atlanta, Georgia - Content: Muskie speaks on support for Israel, war as instrument of foreign policy, refugees, Soviet Jews, Edmund S. Muskie and Abe Goldstein

SC0354 - Speech - Ebenezer Church service, Atlanta, Georgia - Content: Muskie speaks on Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial speech, discrimination, racial tension, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0355 - Speech - Content: Muskie speaks on Israel, shipment of Phantom jets to Israel, U.S. commitment to Israel, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0356 - Speech - Martin Luther King crypt, Atlanta, Georgia - Coretta King speaks on racism, black vice presidential candidate, conversation and miscellaneous comments, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0357 - Speech - New York, New York - Muskie speaks on child care bill, federal health care, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0358 - Speech - Ileitis and Colitis dinner, New York, New York - Muskie speaks on health care, universal health care bill, medical care in America for poor, indigent, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0359 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Pakistan, India, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0360 - Speech - Fireside Inn, Salem, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on U.S. trade deficit, economy under Nixon, America for future, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0361 - Speech - Breakfast, Boston, Massachusetts - Muskie speaks on Nixon, economy, trade deficit, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0362 - Press conference - Manchester, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on 1972 Presidential campaign, New Hampshire primaries, convention, India, Pakistan, Edmund S. Muskie and Tom McIntyre

SC0363 - Speech - Nashua Polish rally, Nashua, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Campaign 1972, poverty, hopelessness under Nixon, decent lives for Americans, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0364 - Press conference - Airport, Kansas City, Missouri - Muskie speaks on agriculture, farm income, India, Pakistan, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0365 - Statement - Peter McCloskey speaks about Edmund S. Muskie, Peter McCloskey

SC0366 - Press conference - Airport, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Muskie speaks on primaries 1972, New Mexico primary, campaign funding, American Indian affairs, draft amnesty, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0367 - Speech - Airport, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Muskie speaks on pollution, clean air act, Nixon, Vietnam, poverty, blacks, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0368 - Speech - Columbus, Ohio - John Gilligan gives enthusiastic endorsement of Edmund S. Muskie, Edmund S. Muskie and John Gilligan

SC0395 - Press Conference - Don E. Nicoll speaks on meeting with Alexei Kosygin, G. Korienko, Muskie, trip to Soviet Union, Middle East, Don E. Nicoll

SC0448 - Speech - Tribute to Reverend Joseph Duffey, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0449 - Press Conference - Hartford, Connecticut - Muskie Speaks on Trip, Conflict in Middle East, Edmund S. Muskie

SR0693 - Muskie feed for Tuesday November 30, 1971, Edmund S. Muskie

SR207 - News report on Senate hearings on water pollution, Daniel Shore

Submissions from 1970 1970

PR0016a - Senator Muskie Informal Talk, pt. 1, Edmund Muskie

PR0016b - Senator Muskie Informal Talk, pt. 2, Edmund Muskie

SC0008 - Interview with Ted Lippman - ESM on 1972 campaign plans, activities since 1968 election, Edmund S. Muskie and Ted Lippman

SC0013 -Speech - ESM on Cooper-Church Amendment, McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, pollution, jobs, environment, withdrawal from Vietnam, prisoners of war, population control, prisons, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0016 -Speech - Gardiner Regional High School, Gardiner, Maine - ESM speaks about vocational education programs at teachers’ conference, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0017 - Interview with Keith Corey - Gardiner, Maine - Interview for later broadcast on Radio Station WABK as part of 1970 Senate campaign. ESM on oil refineries in Me., role as national candidate, record of achievement, shoe and textile industry, destroyer DD-963 deal with Bath Iron Works, sugar beet refinery, Edmund S. Muskie and Keith Corey

SC0022 - Interview with Joe McCaffrey - ESM on his personal schedule, campaign plans, inflation, Vietnam, environment, national mood, rejections of Supreme Court nominees Haynsworth and Carswell, Edmund S. Muskie and Joe McCaffrey

SC0023 - Speech - ESM on arms control and pending Helsinki talks, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0024 - Press conference - ESM on his trip abroad, anti-ballistic missiles, U.S. policy in Middle East and U.S.-Soviet relations, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0026 - Interview on "The Today Show" with Bill Monroe - ESM on trip to Soviet Union, meeting with Kosygin, environment, Vietnam, Middle East, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Berlin talks, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0027 - Television interview on "Meet the Press" - ESM on environment, Machiasport refinery, Humphrey-Muskie administration, Vietnam, Kennedy-Johnson administration, inflation, welfare, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0028 - Press conference - Press conference with Muskie on ambient air quality standards, automobiles in Los Angeles and their pollution, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0029 - Interview - Interview of Muskie about radiation hazard standards, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0030 - Speech - Location: Hunter College, New York City, N.Y. - ESM speaks about education, jobs, housing regulations, school desegregation, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0031 - Interview with Mitchell Kraus - ESM interviewed was about environment, Vietnam and protests, Carswell nomination, Democratic National Convention candidates, and industry, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0034 - Speech and short Press conference - Location: Minot, North Dakota - ESM on Dickey-Lincoln project, Cambodia, student protests, and campaign 1972, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0035 - Speech - ESM speaks against all wars in general and especially national mood in U.S. as evidenced by generation gap and racial conflict, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0037 - Speech - ESM Excerpts from remarks at United Auto Workers convention, Republican convention policies and unemployment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0038 - Statement, followed by Q & A session - ESM Statement given on Kent State incident, attacks responsibility of Nixon administration. Questions from press on National Guard and administration's actions, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0041 - Speech - ESM Talks about social and economic conditions in United States, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0042 - Press conference - Unidentified Press conference, environment, role of government agencies on environmental protection, administration's programs, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0043 - Speech - ESM Dinner for Senator Proxmire, criticizes Republican administration for failure to solve problems and urges people to vote Democratic to restore ideals and trust, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0044 - Press conference - ESM Unidentified and incomplete Press conference on environmental protection legislation, campaign finances and practices, Vietnam, environmental controls, sugar beet industry, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0046 -Speech followed by Q & A session - Senator calls for reform in welfare system: (1) minimum guaranteed income; (2) eliminate inequities; (3) federal takeover; (4) incentives to keep family together and for self-help, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0047 - Press conference - ESM Begins in midst of Press conference with South Carolina journalists: Nixon's policies on environment and dissent, Nixon's tactics, environmental problems, space program, school desegregation, Carswell nomination, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0048 - Press conference - Oil import policies, postage prices, 1972 campaign, Supreme Court nomination, Post Office reorganization, and pollution, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0049 - Speech - Fund raising speech on politics "Towards Excellence in American Life.", Edmund S. Muskie

SC0050 - Interview with Cole Wilkin - Radio station WGAN, Portland, Maine - ESM speaks about water pollution and waste disposal legislation; Ralph Nader; Senator's voting attendance record; political polarization; student unrest; visit to Jackson State; McGovern-Hatfield and Cooper-Church Amendments; drug control; outside income and work schedule; education bond issues; environment and economic growth, Edmund S. Muskie and Cole Wilkin

SC0051 - Speech - Recording starts while Senator Muskie is speaking... trade surplus and expansion, inflation and meeting of labor and business leaders, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0052 - Speech followed by Q & A session - ESM on World's resources, environmental crisis, social and economic problems, national priorities and values, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0053 - Interview with Carl Leubsdorf, Associated Press reporter - ESM’s schedule, travels, activities of last year, 1972 campaign, Nixon's performance, Nixon's Vietnam policies, Senator's previous stand on Vietnam and race relations, Edmund S. Muskie and Carl Leubsdorf

SC0054 - Speech - Alienation and technological unemployment, relevance of Constitution, future of mankind, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0055 - Interview with Ted Lippman - Early years in Washington, D.C., work in Senate, family, social activities, relations with President Johnson, work in Senate committee assignments, Billy Sol Estes case, party loyalty, Senate leadership, and senator's initiatives, Edmund S. Muskie and Ted Lippman

SC0056 - Statement, followed by Q & A session - Statement on Nixon's Cambodia policy; public attitude, and congressional action, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0057 - Statement - Cambodian incursion, Chappaquiddick incident, public attitudes, congressional actions, Viet Cong, Laos, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0058 - Interview for "Issues and Answers" with Bob Clark, Bill Gill - Interviewed about aid to Cambodia, Vietnam environment, strategic arms limitation talks, crime rates, 1970 reelection campaign in Maine, Edmund S. Muskie, Bob Clark, and Bill Gill

SC0059 - Interview for CBS Radio - Muskie and Commissioner of Education James E. Allen speaking abut following subjects: children's needs, Head Start, and Sesame Street television program, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0061 - Remarks during meeting with students - U.S. policies in South East Asia, Muskie's resolution of peace, Congressional action on Vietnam, opposition to Nixon's policies, administration's rhetoric and tactics, Cambodian policies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0062 - Tribute to Senator Ralph Yarborough - ESM on Senator Yarborough's activities and help during Muskie's 1968 campaign, environment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0063 - Speech - Political activism, youth involvement in politics, Vietnam, Earth Day, dangers to freedom, future of nation, Resolution of Peace, Cambodia, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0064 - Speech - Part of speech on environmental quality to conference of the National Association of County Officials, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0065 - Q & A session - ESM on Cambodia, Cooper-Church Amendment, role of youth in politics, 18 year old vote, Searsport oil facility, Korea and Vietnam negotiations, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0066 - Statement followed by Q & A session - ESM Introduction of air pollution bill, summary of goals, presidential politics, U.S. troops in Middle East, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0067 - Speech - ESM speech at Jewish group luncheon honoring Israel's 22nd birthday, new social initiatives, Vietnam, spending priorities, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0068 -Speech - Portland fundraising dinner, reelection campaign, performance of Governor Curtis in debate, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0069 - Speech - Economic capacity of U.S., youth of nation, nature of U.S. society, environment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0070 - Speech - Right to vote, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0071 - Speech - Presentation of doctor of letters, ESM on world environment, urban problems and crime, higher education, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0072 - Speech at Memorial Day parade - Memorial Day traditions, small towns, current unrest in nation, unrest on campuses, sense of community, Maine's progress, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0073 - Speech - Dedication of Veteran's Cemetery. Comparison of Civil War with Vietnam, strengths of nation, current unrest, social problems, moon program, space exploration, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0074 - Interview with Ted Lippman - ESM’s schedule, stand on Vietnam. Speaking to lawyer's group, role of lawyers in society and politics, his hobbies and schedule, Edmund S. Muskie and Ted Lippman

SC0076 - Interview with Jules Witcover of Los Angeles Times - Only ESM’s voice is heard. Veto of Health, Education and Welfare appropriation bill, Senate Democratic Policy Committee, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0077 - Statement - ESM answers series of taped questions from group in Aroostook County as stock press statements, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0078 - Speech - ESM on Ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0079 - Television program "Now Show" for ABC - Cooper-Church Amendment, Cambodia, Nixon's tactics at home, war's impact on economy, inflation, Democratic party in 1970 election, Spiro Agnew, senator's activities, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0080 - Speech followed by Q & A session - ESM reflects on past decade. Welfare program, youths in politics, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0081 - Statement - Short statement on President Nixon's veto of election finance reform legislation, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0082 - Speech followed by Q & A session - Speech before meeting of United Low Income and Emmanuel Baptist Inner City Ministry, Edmund S. Muskie