Muskie, Edmund

Although Patterson insisted that he had no political acumen, he continued his campaign to reach the people who could affect public policy. That fall, he wrote to Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, who chaired the Senate Special Subcommittee on Air and Water. Muskie had just spent two years holding public hearings throughout the United States on air quality he would be the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1968 and a pres-... 

C. C. Patterson. Letter to Edmund S. Muskie. Oct. 7, 1965. in Caltech PP, Box 16.13. Source for the letter about preparing to testily surprise to medicine in 1920s Kehoe is out of date, believes in star-dust and sharp line. 

Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine now stepped forward to seek legislative expression for what was already more than an issue but not quite yet a movement. The Public Works Committee in 1963 established a subcommittee under his chairmanship to deal with air and water pollution. His first initiative was a water pollution bill, enacted in weaker form two years later. 

Senator Edmund Muskie in 1971 with Don Nicoll, his chief of staff, center, and Leon Billings, his chief environmental aide. (Courtesy of The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College.)... 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Edmund S. Muskie Federal Bldg. 

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