{"id":37471,"date":"2010-11-02T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=37471"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:42:38","slug":"post-gazettes-muskie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/11\/02\/post-gazettes-muskie\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Gazette&#039;s David Shribman P&#039;14 recalls Muskie&#039;s midterm speech 40 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Shribman P&#8217;14, executive editor of the <em>Pittsburgh <\/em><em><em>P<\/em>ost-Gazette<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/10304\/1099095-372.stm\">devotes his nationally syndicated column<\/a> to the events leading up to the televised speech delivered by U.S. Sen. Ed Muskie &#8217;36 40 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/11\/muskie_convention1968_0.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/11\/muskie_convention1968_0-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Sen. Edmund Muskie, 1968\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Muskie, who gave the speech just prior to the bitter 1970 midterm elections, was taking on President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew, who were blaming Democrats for the era&#8217;s urban violence and questioning their  patriotism for opposing the Vietnam war. But Muskie &#8220;was appealing for more than votes,&#8221; Shribman writes. He was appealing for &#8220;a less pugilistic politics, and though he would  have a  distinguished Senate career and later serve as secretary of  state, this  may have been his finest hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Said Muskie, &#8220;Our country  is wounded and confused &#8212; but it is also charged with greatness and  with the possibility of greatness. We cannot realize that possibility if  we are afraid &#8230; or if we consume our energies in hostility and  accusation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shribman, who gathered material for the column during the <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/muskie-archives\/\">Muskie Archives&#8217;  25th   anniversary program<\/a> during Parents &amp; Family Weekend,  writes\u00a0   that &#8220;though this  speech today is hardly remembered outside  the Muskie   Archives here at  Bates College, his alma mater, we need to  hear and   heed it today.&#8221; View <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/10304\/1099095-372.stm#ixzz147wJ5gI8\">Shribman&#8217;s column from the <em>Post-Gazette<\/em><\/a>. View a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=04&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=doing_my_research_for_nixonlan\">transcript of Muskie&#8217;s 1970 speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Shribman P&#8217;14, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, devotes his nationally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[195,11009],"tags":[11051,3145,6164],"class_list":["post-37471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-edmund-s-muskie","tag-muskie-archives-and-special-collections-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87374,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37471\/revisions\/87374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}