Edmund S. Muskie Born: 1914 Filed from: Maine NH Primaries 1972 Votes (D) 41,235 Platform: Clean air & water; environmental protection

This senator from Maine was known for his personal integrity and hard work, and had won the respect of all ethnic groups. He verbally defended his wife against publisher Bill Loeb's editorial attack in front of the Union Leader building in Manchester. But was it tears or melting snow on Muskie's face when he called Loeb a "gutless coward?" For months thereafter a poster in the front window of the newspaper read, "Muskie cried here Feb. 26, 1972."