Skip to main content

Audio files

Submissions from 1976 1976

SR427 - Muskie campaign interview, Edmund S. Muskie

Submissions from 1973 1973

SR296 - Muskie speech on Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, Edmund S. Muskie

Submissions from 1972 1972

SC0369 - Press conference - Washington, D.C. - Muskie speaks on candidacy for presidency 1972, war policy of 1968, funding, distrust of government, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0370 - Statement - Concord, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Christian fundamentals and other general questions, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0371 - Speech - Address to New Hampshire legislature - Muskie speaks on his experiences as Maine state legislator, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0372 - Interview with WKXL - Concord, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, economy, India and Pakistan, 18 year old vote, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0374 - Press conference - Concord, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on New Hampshire, national primaries, possibilities of debate, national unity, India, Pakistan, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0375 - Speech - Muskie speaks on Senator Brady, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0377 - Speech - Kickoff rally, Manchester, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, young voters, economy, faith in government, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0380 - Speech - Kick-off rally, Tampa, Florida - Muskie speaks on United States, U.S. image home and abroad, freedom and democracy, Florida, and the elderly, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0380 - Speech - Kick-off rally, Tampa, Florida - Muskie speaks on United States, U.S. image home and abroad, freedom and democracy, Florida, elderly, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0381 - Speech - St. John's Baptist church breakfast, Miami, Florida - Muskie speaks on trust in government, president, jobs and housing for blacks, drugs, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0382 - Interview and news conference - Miami, Florida - Muskie speaks on equality in politics, Soviet Jews, immigration, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0383 - News conference - Springfield, Illinois - Stevenson endorsement news conference. Muskie speaks on Illinois, Adlai Stevenson, Jr., space program, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0384 - News conference - Springfield, Illinois - Stevenson endorsement news conference, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0385 - Speech - Marathon City, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on Presidential campaign 1972, farm issues, agriculture, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0386 - News conference - Marathon City, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on farming, farm takeovers, bargaining, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0387 - Speech - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on campaign 1972, jobs, American system, peace, unemployment, Vietnam, responsive government, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0388 - Speech - Polaski High School, Polaski, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on space shuttle, Nixon, 1968 election, responsible government, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0389 - News conference - Muskie speaks on primaries in 1972, Nixon, New Hampshire, 1972 campaign, economy, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0390 - Speech - Union Hall, Berlin, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on New England problems, inflation, jobs, Nixon, shoe towns, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0391 - Speech - Rally, Berlin, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on problems of Androscoggin Valley, world peace, northern New England area, peace and Nixon administration, Vietnam, public and private life, faith in president, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0392 - News conference - New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Democrats in Maine, Florida primary, Wallace, decision to run in 1972, leadership, vice presidential choice, Vietnam withdrawal, gun control, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0394 - Speech - Dinner, Portland, Maine - Muskie speaks on economy, Nixon, leadership, war, Vietnam, risks of peace, justice and equality, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0396 - Television broadcast - Partial recording of "60 Min." broadcast on Howard Hughes, and traffic in Rome, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0397 - "60 Min." Television broadcast - New Hampshire Primary, Muskie as wrapped up front runner, Hubert H. Humphrey in 1972, Hubert Humphrey as only one who could stop Muskie, Henry Scoop Jackson as "different," McGovern as underdog, John Lindsay as "charisma/media" candidate, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0399 - Speech - Unknown speaker endorses Muskie, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0405 - Speech - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Muskie speaks to delegates on farm policy, collective bargaining for farmers, corporate farming, Blacks and elderly, American image overseas, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0410 - Speech - Address to Philadelphia City Council - Muskie speaks on city government, crime and police protection, poverty, money for urban problems, commitment of federal revenues, challenges of inner cities, bicentennial in 1976, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0422 - Speech - Recorded outside McGaughy Family Health Center, East St. Louis, Illinois - Muskie speaks on model cities, problems with rural and urban health care, resources and programs for Black areas, and college students, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0428 - Speech - Remarks at Southern Illinois University - Muskie speaks on Adlai Stevenson, Nixon's speech, Nixon's withdrawal plan, J. Edgar Hoover's retirement, environmental legislation, and equality, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0431 - Speech - Pensacola, Florida - First several minutes of tape are mostly music, Muskie speaks on small town habits and customs, Florida primary; drugs, crime, morals and integrity, mission for armed forces other than Vietnam, environment, leadership and trust, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0433 - Speech - Panama City, Florida - Muskie speaks on jobs, schools, Vietnam, President Nixon and George Wallace, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0469 - Speech - Keene, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, student issues, drugs, unemployment, economy, women, minorities and young workers, anti-bombing amendment, deficit, amnesty for draft evaders, abortion, United Nations, Middle East, Nixon's budget, and environment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0475 - Speech - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on draft and volunteer army, wage freeze, Black vice president, debate and unrest in politics, debate army candidates, and Nixon's reversal in his policies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0480 - Speech - Manchester, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, Nixon's peace policy, and Nixon's criticism of Muskie, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0485 - Speech - Beyond National Health Insurance - Miami, Florida - Muskie speaks on government aid to elderly, medical bills and hospital taxes, national health insurance, new national security reforms, medical bill of rights and people oriented government, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0488 - Speech - Gainesville, Florida - Muskie responds to criticisms of his response to Nixon's policy, also speaks on legalization of marijuana, freedom of speech, Nixon's Administration, Black vice president, Vietnam, abortion, Gravell amendment, busing and segregation, and Cuban government, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0489 - Tallahassee, Florida - Muskie speaks at American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations, Committee on Political Education meeting about space shuttle, environmental program, Black community, and inequality in education, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0492 - Interview for WJXT-TV - WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, Florida - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, POWs, definite withdrawal dates, support of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, space program in Florida and jobs, segregation and busing, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0505 - Speech - San Francisco, California - Muskie speaks on 1968 election, Wallace, China, decriminalization of marijuana, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0509 - Speech - St. Charles, Illinois Clear Waters Award - Muskie speaks on clean waters, clean rivers, Vietnam, schools, housing, Roosevelt, war, Fox and Androscoggin rivers, air and water pollution, unemployment, space craft, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0510 [Speech] Muskie speaks on Vietnam, minorities, China, gun control, United States and Soviet arms. Introduction by Myrlie Evers., Edmund S. Muskie

SC0512 - Speech - Manchester, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on William Loeb, Nixon, drug addiction, Louis Jalbert, Elmer Violette, Art Barker, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0515 - Speech - Fundraising Dinner, New York City, New York - Muskie speaks on John F. Kennedy, China, and Nixon, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0528 - Speech - Senior Citizens Lunch, Manchester, New Hampshire - Muskie speaks on prison reform, Social Security, health care, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0543 - Speech, Followed by Question and Answer Session - Young Men's Hebrew Association, Miami, Florida - Muskie speaking on leading issues of importance of Florida voters, Reubin Askew, George Wallace, issue of '72 election same as 1968 primaries, war, unemployment, decaying cities and agriculture, rising taxes, medical care, economic system, industry polluting air and water, Social Security tax, property tax, Nixon, schools, Vietnam, voting, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0544 - Speech, Followed by Question and Answer Session (Part 2) - Young Men's Hebrew Association, Miami, Florida - Continued from SC0543, Muskie speaking on legalization of marijuana, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0546 - Speech - St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - Muskie speaking on Vietnam, taxes, Nixon, Wallace, Israel, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0552 - Speech at Victory Rally - Miami, Florida - Muskie speaks on Wallace, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0555 - Speech - East Chicago, Indiana - Muskie speaks on Nixon, Wallace, taxes, funds, leadership, loss in Florida primary, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0557 - Speech - Rock Island, Illinois - Muskie criticizing Wallace and Nixon, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0561 - Speech - Decatur, Illinois - Muskie speaks on farmers, Wallace, Nixon, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0562 - Speech - Springfield, Illinois - Muskie speaks on primary in Illinois, diversity in America, Nixon, Wallace, building America, economy, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0564 - Speech - Peoria, Illinois - Muskie speaks on Nixon, unemployment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0565 - Speech - Joliet, Illinois - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, jobs, schools, Wallace, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0568 - Speech - St. Stanislaus Breakfast, Chicago, Illinois - Muskie speaks on name of plane (Josephine), his Polish Heritage, Soviet Union, Poland, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0570 - Speech - Marion, Illinois - Muskie speaks on Nixon, Vietnam, taxes, his vision of America, unemployment, economics, agriculture, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0571 - Speech - Ottawa, Illinois - Muskie speaks on Nixon, Vietnam, farms, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0572 - Speech - Granite City, Illinois - Muskie speaks on Nixon, Vietnam, taxes, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0578 - Speech - Madison, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on environment, pollution, Nixon, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0579 - Interview - "Face the Nation," Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on Vietnam, economy, government and taxes, Humphrey, McGovern, Nixon, Wallace, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0581 - Speech, Followed by Questions and Answers - Labor Temple, Superior, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on Humphrey, Nixon, inflation, unemployment, Wallace, space plan, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0582 - Speech - Fundraiser, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on production, taxes, Nixon, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0585 - Speech - Labor Breakfast, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on labor, Nixon, inflation, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0607 - Speech - City Council, West Allis, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on resource, taxes, education, elderly people, unemployment, economy, poor economic leadership, primaries, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0629 - Speech - Westchester County Democratic Dinner - Muskie speaks on taxes, inflation, economics, Nixon's leadership, Vietnam, Johnson, belief in Democratic party, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0630 - Speech - Labor Lunch, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Muskie speaks on his working with labor, Nixon economic policy, tax reform, employment, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0638 - Speech - Shipyard, Fall River, Massachusetts - Muskie speaks on running in Massachusetts, Nixon's leadership, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0651 - Country Club Dinner - Teeterboro, New Jersey - Muskie speaks on name of his plane, what people are telling him in primaries, inflation, unemployment, taxes, Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0658 - Speech - Democratic Fundraising Dinner, Detroit, Michigan - Muskie speaks on name of his plane, bombing of Haiphong, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0661 - Music, Speech - Music followed by Muskie on defeating Nixon, Nixon's policy in Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0665 - Speech - Altoona, Pennsylvania - Muskie speaks on Nixon's policy in Vietnam and his economic policy, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0668 - Speech - Newcastle, Pennsylvania - Muskie speaks on concerns of people, Nixon's policy on Vietnam and economics, taxes, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0673 - Press Conference - Cleveland, Ohio - Muskie speaks on Vietnam then answers questions about primary, taxes, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0674 - Speech - Cleveland, Ohio - Muskie speaks on Nixon's policy on Vietnam and answers questions about primary and Vietnam, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0675 - Speech - Toledo, Ohio - Muskie speaks on Nixon's failure of his control program in increase of food prices, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0678 - Speech - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Muskie speaks on Nixon's Vietnam and economic policies, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0679 - Speech Followed by Press Conference - Cincinnati, Ohio - Muskie speaks about ITT affair and end of inquiry into qualifications of Richard Kleindienst for Attorney General and his vote against him. Muskie answers questions about his campaign, Vietnam, economy, funding for non-public schools, Edmund S. Muskie

SR749 - Muskie feed for Wednesday January 26, 1972, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0553 - Speech, Followed by Question and Answer Session - Indianapolis, Indiana - Senator Birch Bayh endorses Muskie. Muskie speaks on Adlai Stevenson in 1956 campaign, electing Kennedy in 1960, Florida primary, defeating Nixon and Wallace for presidency, unemployment, inflation, failure to end war, jobs, schools, leadership, Edmund S. Muskie and Birch Bayh

SC0534 - New Hampshire Primary, Democratic Presidential Debate - Studio of New Hampshire Network in Durham, New Hampshire - Five Democratic presidential candidates to express their views on issues, Edward Cole of Hartford, Connecticut; Senator George McGovern of South Dakota; Senator Vance Hatke, of Indiana; Senator Edmund Muskie, of Maine; and Mayor Sam Yorty, of Los Angeles, Edmund S. Muskie, Edward Cole, George McGovern, Vance Hartke, and Sam Yorty

SC0535 - New Hampshire Primary, Democratic Presidential Debate (Part 2) - Studio of New Hampshire Network in Durham, New Hampshire - Continued from SC0534, Democratic Presidential Debate, Edmund S. Muskie, Edward Cole, George McGovern, Vance Hartke, and Sam Yorty

SC0611 - Speech - Viroqua, Wisconsin - Muskie speaks on issues in campaign, hopes of Americans, property taxes, medical bills, end to war in Vietnam, agriculture and economy, then answers questions, Edmund S. Muskie and Norbat Connors

SC0508 - Speech - Chicago, Illinois - Muskie speaks about Illinois and Florida primaries, leadership, Truman, Nixon, Lincoln, Edmund S. Muskie and Richard J. Daley

SC0398 - Speech - Columbus, Ohio - Muskie speaks with Gilligan to delegates for Florida convention, campaign 1972, Nixon price and wage controls, inflation, unemployment, peace, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, Edmund S. Muskie and John Gilligan

SC0497 - Campaign Train - Jacksonville, Florida - Muskie speaks about Harry Truman, 1972 election, employment, George Wallace, Edmund S. Muskie and Arlo Guthrie

SC0403 - Speech - Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Muskie speaks on Nixon, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Nixon's "secret plan" to end war, troops in Europe, unemployment, Clean Water Bill, Edmund S. Muskie and Harold Hughes

SC0442 - Speech - Miami, Florida - Muskie speaks about state task force on pollution, Florida's parks and beaches, environmental goals, Clean Air Acct, busing, space industry, and primary debates, Edmund S. Muskie and Jim Redford

SC0411 - Press conference - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Muskie with Mayor Rizzo and State Senator Camiel about their meeting concerning the problems of Philadelphia, Edmund S. Muskie, Frank Rizzo, and Peter J. Camiel

SC0461 - Speech - Rockford, Illinois - Muskie speaks on leadership, Nixon's Vietnam speech, taxes, and peace, Edmund S. Muskie, Adlai Stevenson, and Leonard Woodcock

SC0373 - Interview with Mike Wallace - Concord, New Hampshire - Senator speaks about himself as front runner, Campaign 1972, Edmund S. Muskie and Mike Wallace

SC0694 - Speech, Followed by Questions and Answers - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Muskie speaks on three things he promises people, first is to end the war within sixty days, second is to use nation's resources to help build better lives, and third is to make government fair, Edmund S. Muskie and John White

SC0559 - Press Conference (Woodcock) - Peoria, Illinois - Muskie speaks on abortion, financing of campaign, Edmund S. Muskie and Leonard Woodcock

SC0393 - Speech - Josephine Muskie speaks at dedication of airplane, Josephine Muskie

Submissions from 1971 1971

SC0257 - Testimony - Meeting of Subcommittees on Intergovernmental Relations and Revenue Sharing - Testimony is given by Senator Mathias on impact of revenue sharing, Charles Mathias

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

SC0262 - Remarks - AFL/CIO Committee On Political Education (COPE) report, George Meany

SC0025 - Interview on "30 Minutes" - ESM on trip to Soviet Union, views on foreign policy, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Middle East conflict, Vietnam, domestic problems, congressional reform, six day war, unemployment, race relations. Introduction: Elisabeth Drew, Edmund S. Muskie

SC0075 - Speech followed by Q & A session - End of speech, questions and answers, Edmund S. Muskie