Comments on: Edmund Muskie Oral History Project completed http://www.bates.edu/news/2005/02/21/muskie-oral-history/ Fri, 31 May 2013 14:47:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cyrus Hamlin http://www.bates.edu/news/2005/02/21/muskie-oral-history/#comment-5774 Cyrus Hamlin Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:46:07 +0000 http://home.bates.edu/?p=10734#comment-5774 As Governor, Muskie established the “Governor’s Advisory Committee” (GACE) to help him with eductional matters. GACE was a blue ribbon committee, usually with at least one Maine college president a memeber, and an enthusiastic group of knowledgeable people. GACE was instrumental in pushing several important educational initiatives including Sen. Porteus’ SAD Bill to have at last 300 students in any high school, help Bates, Bowdoin, Colby and U of Maine initiate public radio and TV, and fulfill the new legislation which guarantees every Maine child, even if severely mentally or physically handicapped, be taught as far as they can go in the public school system.

U.S. Senator Muskie was also the only prominent Washington figure whom the columnist Jack Anderson never received a single poison pen letter about.

Had Jimmy Carter been reelected, Muskie would have certainly remained as Secretary of State and the world today would have been a different place.

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