by 502RamJet » Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:22 am
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Rumford, Maine. He served as the 64th Governor of Maine, as U.S. Senator, and as U.S. Secretary of State. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1968, and was a candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. Muskie held the highest office (Secretary of State) a Polish-American has held in the United States and was the only Polish-American nominated by a major party for Vice president.
Muskie retired to his home in Washington, D.C. in 1981. He continued to work as a lawyer for some years. In 1987, as an elder statesman, Muskie was appointed a member of the President's Special Review Board known as the " Tower Commission" to investigate President Ronald Reagan's administration's role in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Muskie died in Washington, D.C., of congestive heart failure in 1996, two days shy of his 82nd birthday. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Muskie's papers[ 9] are kept at the Edmund S. are kept at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species.