TABLE OF CONTENTS

Collection Summary

Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

Organization and Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Separated Material

Administrative Information

Series Description

Series I: Personal and Family Records, 1912-2004

Series II: Waterville Law Practice, 1914-1957

Series III: Early Public Service, 1946-1954

Series IV: Governor, 1952-1958

Series V: U.S. Senate, 1935-1981 1959-1980

Series VI: Political Campaigns, 1957-1977

Series VII: U.S. Secretary of State, 1979-1981 1980-1981

Series VIII: Post-Secretary of State, 1979-1996 1981-1996

Series IX: Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission, 1963-1996

Series X: Nestle Infant Formula Audit Commission (NIFAC), 1978-1994

Series XI: Albums and Scrapbooks, 1931-2000 1931-1940, 1950-1980

Series XII: Appointment Books and Visitors' Books, 1946-1996 1955-1980

Series XIII: Artifacts, Undetermined

Series XIV: Clippings, 1954-2000

Series XV: Moving Images, 1948-1976

Series XVI: Photographs, 1916-2005

Series XVII: Sound Recordings, 1952-1980

Guide to the Edmund S. Muskie papers, 1848-2004

Series I: Personal and Family Records, 1912-2004
32 linear feet; 65 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

The documents in this series comprise a variety of personal records that pertain to Muskie and his family.

Documents related to Edmund S. Muskie in this series include documents from his student years and his service in the U.S. Navy during WWII, as well as personal correspondence, financial records and similar files from throughout his lifetime, and documents related to his death and estate. This series does not contain much information about Muskie's Senate years (1958-1979), since his Senate office maintained personal files for him, which are included in series V.A: U. S. Senate, Washington Office.

This series also contains personal records related to Edmund S. Muskie's wife, Jane Gray Muskie (1927-2004); his mother, Josephine Czarnecki Muskie (1891-1973); and his father, Stephen Muskie (1883-1956).

Finally, this series includes a copy of Edmund S. Muskie's FBI file, which was obtained by Bates College in 2005 through a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

Organization and Arrangement

This series has been roughly arranged according to which Muskie family member created the documents. It is expected to undergo additional rearrangement between 2007 and 2010.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series II: Waterville Law Practice, 1914-1957
72 linear feet; 145 manuscript boxes; 26 volumes

Scope and Content Note

In 1940 Muskie joined the law firm of Waterville attorney Carl Blackington, who died shortly thereafter. Muskie then practiced law on his own until early 1942, when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After his discharge in late 1945, he resumed his practice. Despite Muskie's service as governor and U.S. senator, he maintained the practice, at least minimally, until the early 1960s.

Most of Muskie's legal work was civil cases such as probate pleadings, the establishment and management of trustee accounts, divorces, contracts, tax adjudications, and suits filed by individuals and local businesses in the Waterville area.

This series consists of notebooks Muskie compiled at Cornell Law School (1936-1939), bookkeeping notes by his sister Lucy, a large number of legal forms that were completed for clients, copies of legal periodicals and booklets, files he received from Carl Blackington, financial records of clients and his practice, and case files on individual clients.

Organization and Arrangement

The series is generally arranged by type of record or file and thereunder alphabetically by subject or name of client.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Access Restrictions

This series is temporarily closed pending review. Until the entire series can be reviewed for materials that should be restricted, request to use materials in this series will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Series III: Early Public Service, 1946-1954
9 linear feet; 19 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

Between his discharge from the Navy in 1946 and his election as governor of Maine in 1953, Muskie was active in several areas of public service. Most notably, he served as a member of the State Legislature for two and a half terms, and directed the Maine district of the U.S. Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) from 1951-1952.

During this same period, Muskie was also active with a number of public service and political organizations. For example, he was a national leader of AMVETS, an organization of World War II veterans, and was very active in the Democratic Party.

The series contains correspondence, notes, publications, and financial records relating to the abovementioned organizations, as well numerous others, including the College Club of Bates, Sisters Hospital in Waterville, Waterville USO Committee, Waterville Lions Club, Waterville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Waterville Board of Zoning Adjustment.

Organization and Arrangement

The series is arranged alphabetically by organization name.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series IV: Governor, 1952-1958
116 linear feet; 232 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

These are the central files from Muskie's two terms as governor of Maine (1955-1959). Most of the material relates to the business of the governor's office, but the series also includes files from his 1954 and 1956 campaigns.

Gubernatorial files in this series include correspondence, appointments and nominations, invitations and speaking engagements, Muskie's personal and special bank account files, legislative papers, and resource files.

The campaign files consist of correspondence with Democratic Party activists, supporters and candidates for other offices; financial reports; documentation on campaign issues; drafts and copies of Muskie's speeches; and copies of campaign literature.

Organization and Arrangement

This series is arranged in chronological order by year, and thereunder by type of file.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of the files maintained by Muskie's U.S. Senate offices in Washington, D.C. and in Maine.

The records in this series document the entire range of the activities of Muskie and members of his staff during his Senate career (1959-1980), from the crafting of legislation to responding to constituent requests for intercession with federal agencies to the tracking of local and national issues that came to the attention of Muskie or his staff. The preponderance of the material deals with matters of immediate legislative interest to Muskie, such as the development of federal pollution control legislation, the operation of the federal civil service and intergovernmental relations, and, in the 1970s, congressional oversight of the federal budget-writing process, and the settlement of the Maine Indian land claims. The files also contain considerable documentation on national and international issues such as the Vietnam War.

Organization and Arrangement

This series is arranged into two subseries: Washington Office and State Offices. The first subseries contains files originating in Muskie's Senate office in Washington, D.C., while the second subseries contains files originating in Muskie's satellite offices throughout the state of Maine.

The first subseries, Washington Office, is arranged primarily by congressional session, with an additional sub-subseries for files received from the U.S. Congressional office of Rep. Frank M. Coffin upon its closure in 1961, and a miscellaneous sub-subseries.

The second subseries, State Offices, is organized by office location, e.g., Waterville.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries, by far the largest set of files in the collelction, consists of files maintained by Muskie's U.S. Senate office sfaff in Washington, D.C. They are organized by congressional session (two-year periods), and thereunder according to the office filing system in use during that session.

Although the contents of files vary from congressional session to session, the file types found in this series are generally the same across sessions, and include:

• Case files, which were established on individuals who sought the intercession of the Senate office in dealing with a federal agency. These are similar to the requests handled by caseworkers in Muskie's state offices in Maine and documented in Subseries B. The case files are generally arranged by federal agency to which the case was referred and thereunder in alphabetical order by name of individual. Agencies with the most case files include the Department of Defense (military case files and military academy files), Department of Justice (immigration files), Social Security Administration, Veterans Administration, and the Farmers Home Administration. Depending on the system in use for that year, case files may or may not include academy files, which document applicants and Muskie's nominees to the U.S. military academies. Case and academy files are currently closed to researchers except in cases where the researcher is the subject of the file, or where the subject of the file is known to be deceased.
• Correspondence files, including all incoming and outgoing correspondence. The correspondence files are frequently co-filed with case files, legislative files, project files, and legislative files. The file system evolved somewhat from session to session, but often included a master alphabetical file of all outgoing correspondence, files organized by office function (e.g., administrative, public relations), Muskie personal files, and files organized by topic or federal agencies. Later correspondence files also include "Robo" and "MTST" letters - standardized statements that could be generated by electric typewriter and sent in response to constituent correspondence.
• Legislative files, which document bills that Muskie sponsored or his office tracked. These files frequently contain correspondence with constituents and public officials, background documentation, and staff memoranda on specific pieces of legislation. They are distinct from the sponsorship/cosponsorship files noted below in that they generally pertain to bills which were handled by committees on which Muskie served or in which Muskie or his staff took a great interest, but which he did not necessarily sponsor or cosponsor. In some sessions, especially the later ones, the legislative files were included in the main file code system, and so may be found under correspondence.
• Personal files of Muskie or his staffers, which have been retained as separate file sets. Individuals for whom files exist include administrative assistants Donald E. Nicoll, Leon G. Billings, John T. McEvoy, Charles J. Micoleau and Maynard J. Toll, Jr., legislative assistant James W. Case, and chief counsel Peter N. Kyros, Jr.
• Political files, which were established to document and keep track of both Muskie's campaign-related activities, as well as the campaigns of Democratic office seekers in Maine and Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate seats from other states. When a large set of these files pertained to a particular campaign, they have been moved to the appropriate subseries within series VI. Political Campaigns, for researcher convenience.
• Press files, which contain news releases that Muskie's Senate office issued, press clippings on Muskie's activities, position statements on various national or international issues, periodical articles and editorials by Muskie, and typescripts of Muskie's speeches.
• Project files, which are similar to individual case files in that they deal with requests to the Senate office for intercession with a federal agency. In these instances, however, a local or state official in Maine, rather than a private citizen, requested assistance, usually with a federally managed or funded projects in the state. Project files usually do not appear as a separate set of files, but are a type of file integrated into the correspondence or case Files.
• Resource files, which were collected as reference files for the office staff. The Resource files are often similar in organization to - sometimes indiscernible from - the correspondence files, except that they generally do not contain correspondence. Whenever resource files have been identified as belonging to a particular staff member or office division, that information has been retained. However, the identities of many of the resource files' creators have been lost.
• Scheduling files, which contain correspondence related to Muskie's personal schedule. The files are usually in chronological order by date of proposed event.
• Sponsorship/cosponsorship files, which document bills that Muskie sponsored or cosponsored. The files are organized by bill number or, occasionally, alphabetically by Senate committee that worked on the bill, or type of bill (House bill, joint bill, etc.).

Organization and Arrangement

The Washington Office subseries is dividied into chronological sub-subseries based on congressional session. In addition, there is a miscellaneous sub-subseries consisting of file sets that are undated or span Muskie's entire Senate career.

At the end of each congressional session, Muskie's staff shipped the files to a federal records center and started a new set of records, although they usually kept a limited number of files for reference.

To the extent possible, the original file system structures used during each session, which were frequently jumbled during storage and shipping, have been recreated in the current intellectual arrangement. Copies of the official file code systems have been found for 1971-1979, and have been used to reconstruct the files as they probably existed in the office. The file organizational structure presented here for 1959-1970 is based on the numerical codes written on the files, and on discussion with Don Nicoll, Muskie's administrative assistant from 1962-1971.

Whenever a file or set of files overlaps two congressional sessions, it has been arranged with the records from the latest session documented therein.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries consists of case, project and legislative files collected by Rep. Frank M. Coffin, a close friend of Muskie and a fellow Democrat who represented Maine's Second Congressional District from 1957 to 1961. Upon leaving the U.S. Congress, Coffin gave the files to Muskie because they related to ongoing matters affecting Maine. The files deal with fisheries, a small medical clinics bill, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer projects in Maine, post office construction and staffing, and the proposed Passamaquoddy Hydroelectric Power Project in eastern Maine.

Organization and Arrangement

Files are arranged according to Congressman Coffin's office's topic-based filing system, although only those files given to Muskie are represented here, not the complete filing structure.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

Only a few files exist from Muskie's first term in the U.S. Senate. Most of these are press files containing copies of speeches and Muskie newsletters, and a few are related to his 1959 trip to Russia.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 87th Congressional Session: Press Files, Legislative Files, Correspondence/Resource Files including a large number of patronage files, and a small number of miscellaneous files.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 88th Congressional Session: correspondence/resource/case files (which include legislative files), political files, press files, scheduling files, roll call voting records, sponsorship/cosponsorship files, and a small number of miscellaneous files.

Of particular interest in this subseries are the legislative committee files (categorized as 500s in the file system), which include correspondence, reports and related records on legislation being considered by the Senate Public Works Committee, which crafted federal environmental protection bills, and the Senate Government Operations Committee, which conducted the Billie Sol Estes investigation. The Government Operations Committee files also contain documents related to the proposed Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project in eastern Maine.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is arranged by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 89th Congressional Session: academy files, correspondence/resource/case files, legislative files, political files, press files, and office management files.

It also includes documents related to Muskie's participation in the Mansfield Mission trip to Vietnam, and Muskie's early Senate roll call voting record.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is arranged by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 90th Congressional Session: academy files, correspondence/resource/case files, legislative files, political files, and press files.

In addition, there are substantial runs of files maintained by Administrative Assistant Donald E. Nicoll, and of field hearings led by Muskie on air pollution control legislation.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 91st Congressional Session: correspondence/resource/case files; legislative resource files; political files; press files; resource files; scheduling files; and personal files belonging to Muskie, Eliot Cutler, John Whitelaw, and Charles Micoleau.

Researchers may note that the records for 1970 include two different sets of correspondence files, one organized similarly to the office's correspondence files in the 1960s, and the other organized similarly to those from the 1970s. The major difference between the two is that the former incorporated case file correspondence along with the rest of the correspondence, while the latter maintained generally distinct case and correspondence files.

The records from the 91st Congress are particularly rich in their documentation of Muskie's work on air and water quality legislation, developing the sugar beet industry in Maine, and the HUD Model Cities Program; Muskie's stands on a range of foreign policy issues; and his responses to the policies of the administration of Richard M. Nixon.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 92nd Congressional Session: individual case files; case/project files; correspondence files; resource and resource/correspondence files; scheduling files; sponsorship/cosponsorship files; personal files of Dan Lewis and Clint McCully; files related to the Public Works Committee Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution; miscellaneous files; and copies of bills maintained for campaign purposes.

Since the 92nd Congressional Session coincided with Muskie's most intense period of campaigning for the 1972 Democratic Presidential nomination, the press files for this session include a significant amount of material beyond what is contained in most sessions' press files. This material includes extensive lists of local media outlets across the country, clippings files organized by publication and writer names, a small number of polls, and a set of files from 1935-1971 (bulk dates 1961-1971) that contain Muskie speeches, statements, etc. arranged topically.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 93rd Congressional session: academy files; case/project files; correspondence files; political files; press files; resource files; scheduling files; sponsorship/cosponsorship files; personal files of Maynard J. Toll, Peter N. Kyros, and Muskie; and a small number of miscellaneous files.

These records are particularly rich in their coverage of Democratic responses to the Watergate scandal and President Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon; the Maine Indian land claim case; the HUD Model Cities program; the establishment of the Senate Budget Committee, which Muskie chaired; and energy and environmental legislation.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 94th Congressional Session: case files (including academy files); correspondence files; political files; press files; resource files; scheduling files; sponsorship/cosponsorship files; personal files of Muskie, James W. Case and William S. Cohen; and a small number of miscellaneous files.

These files include substantial documentation on the Maine Indian land claim case; clean air and water legislation; the work of the Senate Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, both of which Muskie chaired; and Muskie's responses to U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Additionally, the political files from this congressional session include information about the 1972 and 1976 Presidential election processes.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries contains the following types of files from the 95th Congressional Session: academy files; case files; correspondence files; legislative files; political files; press files; project/resource files; resource files; scheduling files; sponsorship/cosponsorship files; personal files from Muskie and Charles Micoleau; and a small number of miscellaneous file.

These files include a significant amount of material on the 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments, the 1978 Countercyclical Assistance Bill, the Maine Indian land claims case, and Muskie's proposed Sunset Bill of 1978; and a large number of congressional voting record reports from various organizations.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

Muskie's final Congressional Session in the Senate, the 96th, was interrupted in 1980 by his nomination and confirmation as U.S. secretary of state. The files in this sub-subseries, therefore, cover only the period through April 1980; the records for the rest of 1980 can be found in Series VII: U.S. Secretary of State.

This sub-subseries includes the following types of files from the 96th Congressional Session: academy files; case files; correspondence files; legislative files; press files; project files; scheduling files; personal files from Muskie, Leon Billings, Jim Case, John McEvoy, and Carol Parelee; and a small number of miscellaneous files.

These files include significant documentation of the Senate Budget Committee and the Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project, a proposed electrical power facility that was never built.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is arranged by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

The Miscellaneous sub-subseries includes files that span Muskie's entire Senate career, and which do not easily fit into the records of any individual Congressional Session. The types of files include lists of committee assignments; news clippings, memorabilia and booklets; briefing books; notebooks of all Muskie speeches; Congressional Record reprints; Muskie's complete voting record; files maintained in Muskie's personal office; and some miscellaneous files. This sub-suseries also includes some trip and miscellaneous files from Muskie's first Senate term.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized by file type.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

In addition to his main Senate office in Washington, D.C., Muskie maintained at least one office in Maine throughout his Senate career. For most of that time, the Waterville Office, which grew from his law office in the same town, was his main base of operations in the state. By the end of his career, however, Muskie had opened local offices throughout the state to facilitate interaction with constituents and local coordination. The files in this subseries represent the records of those offices.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries is dividied by sub-subseries reflecting local office locations.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries includes case files, project files, research files on topics of local interest, press files with clippings from local periodicals, correspondence and office management files.

Topics of particular interest in this sub-subseries include Loring Air Force Base in northern Maine and the Maine Indian land claim case.

Organization and Arrangement

The subseries is in reverse chronological order by year, thereunder by type of file (case, correspondence, office, press, project, or research), and thereunder alphabetical by subject, agency, correspondent, or project.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This subseries consists mostly of case and project files that deal with requests from York County residents who asked the office for assistance in obtaining help from a federal agency.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is arranged in chronological order by year, thereunder by type of file (case or project and case/project log), and thereunder alphabetical by correspondent.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

Most of the subseries consists of case files on constituent requests, along with a few office management files. The files contain correspondence, handwritten notes, and case and project logs.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is organized chronological by year, thereunder by type of file (case or office), thereunder alphabetically by subject or agency, and thereunder alphabetical by correspondent.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

The subseries contains case files on constituent requests, local project files, office management files, and press releases. In addition, there are clipping files on Muskie's bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, his 1976 U.S. Senate reelection opponent Robert Monks, and Maine politics in the 1970s.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is arranged by by type of file (case, office, political, press, or project), thereunder chronological by year, thereunder alphabetically by subject, and thereunder alphabetically by correspondent.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This sub-subseries comprises project/case files and outgoing agency and constituent correspondence.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is arranged by file type and thereunder alphabetically by subject or correspondent.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

The Waterville Office functioned as Muskie's primary office in the State of Maine for his entire Senate career. The records from that office include case and project files; carbon copies of correspondence sent from both the Waterville and the Washington offices; press files; correspondence and related documents on the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1970 and 1972 election campaigns; an "information/resource file" consisting of newspaper clippings on state and national topics; office management files; publications of congressional hearings; and some personal material such as Muskie's income tax returns and bank accounts. This sub-subseries also contains a file of typescript copies of Muskie speeches, mainly those given in Maine, dating from 1955 to 1972.

Organization and Arrangement

This sub-subseries is arranged by type of file, and thereunder chronologically or alphabetically by subject, agency, correspondent, or project.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

The records in this series are the files maintained by the organizations which Muskie established to direct his political campaigns. Hence, the files generally document the day-to-day work of the campaign staffs and Muskie's campaign activities. The series contains the records of six of Muskie's political campaigns - his election to the U.S. Senate in 1958 and his reelection races in 1964, 1970 and 1976; his race as the 1968 Democratic nominee for the U.S. vice presidency; and his bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. They also include material on Muskie's efforts on behalf of the Presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960.

Organization and Arrangement

The series is organized into six subseries, one for each of the above-mentioned political races.

Series VI, Subseries A: 1958 Senate Campaign, 1957-1958
4 linear feet; 9 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

Files maintained by the Muskie for Senator Committee, which ran Muskie's first campaign for the U.S. Senate. Headquartered in Augusta, the committee was managed by John C. Donovan, a government instructor at Bates College who was active in the resurgence of the Maine Democratic party in the early 1950s and later served as Muskie's first administrative assistant. The committee's records consist of correspondence relating to the management of the campaign including the scheduling of appearances by Muskie, coordination with the Democratic candidates for governor and the U.S. House of Representatives, clippings on incumbent U.S. Senator Frederick Payne, and folders on current campaign issues.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries currently is arranged in the order it was received when it was shipped to Bates; it will be rearranged between 2007 and 2010.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series VI, Subseries B: 1960 Kennedy-Johnson Presidential Campaign, 1960-1961
1 linear foot; 3 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

These files on Muskie staff's contacts with the Maine Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson organization were kept in his Waterville, Maine office. They contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, information on Kennedy's positions on various issues, brochures and other printed campaign material, and material on the inauguration.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries currently is arranged in the order it was received when it was shipped to Bates; it will be rearranged between 2007 and 2010.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series VI, Subseries C: 1964 Senate Reelection Campaign, 1958-1964
17 linear feet; 34 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

Records of the Muskie for Senate Committee, which organized his first Senate reelection campaign, and political files related to the campaign from Muskie's Washington office. The files include financial records kept by the campaign treasurer and related correspondence; files on campaign issues and debates with Muskie's challenger, Rep. Clifford G. McIntire; a testimonial dinner held in Muskie's honor, and the 1964 presidential campaign of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries currently is arranged in the order it was received when it was shipped to Bates; it will be rearranged between 2007 and 2010.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series VI, Subseries D: 1968 Humphrey-Muskie Presidential Campaign, 1968
28 linear feet; 57 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

The files were created beginning August 30, 1968, when Muskie was nominated as Democratic candidate for U.S. vice president. They consist of press materials (press kits and releases, typescripts of campaign speeches and remarks), schedules, invitations and responses, and correspondence between campaign officials, including those representing Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the presidential nominee. The subseries also includes congratulation and thank-you notes, advance files, files on issues, newspaper clippings, and financial records.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries currently is arranged in the order it was received when it was shipped to Bates; it will be rearranged between 2007 and 2010.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series VI, Subseries E: 1970 Senate Reelection Campaign, 1970-1971
12 linear feet; 24 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains the records of the Maine for Muskie and Citizens for Muskie committees, which organized Muskie's 1970 Senate reelection campaign against Republican challenger Neil Bishop, a former state senator.

The files consist of financial documents, briefing books on various campaign issues, files on press relations and publicity, staffing, campaign support groups such as Lawyers for Muskie, and folders on specific issues such as the environment, education and foreign policy. The subseries also includes the files of campaign manager George J. Mitchell, who later was staff director of the Muskie for President Committee and succeeded Muskie in the U.S. Senate.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries currently is arranged in the order it was received when it was shipped to Bates; it will be rearranged between 2007 and 2010.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series VI, Subseries F: 1972 Muskie Presidential Campaign, 1970-1972
247 linear feet; 494 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

By the time Muskie announced he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the president January 30, 1972, a Muskie for President Committee with a large and growing staff had been in operation in Washington, D.C. since early 1971. The records in this subseries are the office files of that organization and related organizations in Maine. They document almost every aspect of Muskie's unsuccessful campaign.

In particular, the records provide detailed information on the structure of the committee staff and the work of several senior staff members in the campaign, candidate Muskie's activities and statements, and the role of his wife Jane Gray Muskie in the campaign. The files also contain many strategic internal documents related to the campaign and the development of Muskie's positions on national and international issues.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries is organized by file type, or by the position and name of the individual that created the files [e.g., Deputy Staff Director's Files (Robert Nelson)].

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Series VI, Subseries G: 1976 Senate Reelection Campaign, 1976-1977
20 linear feet; 40.5 manuscript boxes

Scope and Content Note

Files maintained by Maine for Muskie Committee to support what turned out to be his last Senate reelection campaign, this time against Republican challenger Robert Monks. The files contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, copies of speeches and speech drafts, computer printouts of polling data, lists of contributors and supporters, reports on campaign expenditures, position statements by Muskie, information on Monks' campaign and background, press releases, and printed material. There are also files on issues that might be raised during the campaign, such as shoe imports, abortion in the wake of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, the proposed Dickey-Lincoln water power project in northern Maine, and energy conservation; records on campaign office operations and meetings and other events with supporters; and materials collected to prepare Muskie for upcoming debates with his opponent.

Organization and Arrangement

This subseries currently is arranged in the order it was received when it was shipped to Bates; it will be rearranged between 2007 and 2010.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This series comprises Muskie's personal files from his tenure as U.S. secretary of state under President Carter.

This series contains Muskie's personal correspondence, invitations and cards from well-wishers, scheduling files, newspaper clippings, briefing books, texts of speeches and other public statements, and files related to Mrs. Muskie.

Organization and Arrangement

This series is arranged by type of file and thereunder chronologically or alphabetically.

Acquisition and Custody Information

Departmental records generated by Muskie while serving as U.S. secretary of state from May 8, 1980, to January 20, 1981, are official federal records and thus were transferred to the U.S. Department of State. They will eventually be transferred to the National Archives, where they will be made available for research after they are declassified. Material relating to the Iran hostage crisis has been returned to the Department of State on the grounds that it is national security classified.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains files related to with Muskie's activities after leaving office as secretary of state in 1981.

Many of the records were maintained in his office at the Washington, D.C., law firm Chadbourne & Parke, where he was a senior partner, and pertain to his professional and public service activities. These files include detailed documentation on Muskie's daily activities and public appearances, his legal work, and his professional activities with the American Bar Association.

The files also document Muskie's leadership of and participation in numerous public service and advocacy organizations such as the Center for National Policy (of which he was president) and the Maine Commission on Legal Needs (which he chaired).

This series also contains Muskie's files related to his service on the President's Special Review Board to investigate the Iran-Contra scandal.

Muskie's records related to his leadership of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission and the Nestle Infant Formula Audit Commission during this time period have been incorporated into Series IX and X, respectively.

Organization and Arrangement

The series is arranged into the following sets of files: Scheduling; Correspondence; Professional Activities; Public Service; Publications and Speeches; Political Activities.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Access Restrictions

Items in this series related to Muskie's work as a professional attorney are closed pending review for attorney-client sensitive material. This review is expected to be completed between 2007 and 2010.

Scope and Content Note

This series comprises a variety ot document types, including correspondence, reports, agenda, and minutes related to the creation and management of Roosevelt Campobello International Park.

Much of the series is made up of packets sent to commission members for upcoming meetings. These packets contain minutes from previous meetings, agendas, and reports from officials on the park's programs, personnel, facilities, budget, and development plans.

The remainder of the series is mostly correspondence between Muskie and other commission members, park officials, private citizens and officials of other U.S. and Canadian government agencies.

In addition to the deliberations and actions of the commission, the files contain documentation on the management of the park, the upkeep of the visitors center and the Roosevelt summer home, publicity, budgetary matters, and policies and procedures concerning access to the park site and its personnel.

The series also contains several files on the proposed installation of an oil refinery in nearby Pittston, Maine, which became an object of considerable controversy in the late 1970s, and which some members of the commission feared might have an adverse impact on the park.

Organization and Arrangement

The series is arranged chronologically, with the exception of the Pittston Oil Refinery files, which span several years and are located at the end of the series.

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

Edmund S. Muskie served as the chairman of the Nestle Infant Formula Audit Commission (NIFAC), which was established to review complaints that Nestle Corporation had violated World Health Organization guidelines on the marketing of breast-milk substitutes in developing countries. This series contains the records of the commission, Muskie's personal records related to the commission, and the records of several other commission members.

Organization and Arrangement

By type of record or origin of files (provenance).

A container list, which includes box and folder numbers and folder titles, is available online and in the reading room.

Acquisition and Custody Information

Includes accession #'s 030-92-01; 030-93-01; 030-93-02; 030-94-01; 042-97-01, previously cataloged as the Nesle Infant Formula Audit Commission records; plus material previously contained in Series XIX: Post Public Office (now Series VII: Post-Secretary of State)

Scope and Content Note

These photograph albums and scrapbooks were compiled by Muskie, his family, and his staff.

This series includes items from Muskie's student years, his political career, and afterward.

Of particular note are Volumes 29-45, which are Muskie's official Senate scrapbooks, which contain personal correspondence of some significance that was set aside by his staff throughout the year for inclusion in the scrapbook.

Organization and Arrangement

Arrangement of the scrapbooks is approximately chronological.

A list of the scrapbooks, which includes the volume number and inclusive dates of each volume, is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains appointment books and visitors' books kept throughout Muskie's adult life.

Organization and Arrangement

This series is organized into two subseries by format: A. Appointment Books, and B. Visitors' Books.

Within each subseries, arrangement is chronological.

A list of books with inclusive dates is available online and in the reading room.

Scope and Content Note

The appointment books are bound pre-printed calendar books noting Muskie's meetings and telephone calls during his years as a lawyer in Waterville, Maine (1951); as governor of the state and U.S. senator (1955-1980), and after leaving public office (1983-1988, 1993-1996). For the most part, the appointment books contain only brief entries on upcoming meetings and calls. However, two books from 1979 and 1980 contain the beginnings of a journal-type record, in which Muskie recorded his daily activities.

Organization and Arrangement

Chronological.

Scope and Content Note

The visitors' books are logs of visitors to the Muskie summer camp on China Lake, Maine (1946-1949), the Blaine House (1955-1958), and his Senate office in Washington, D.C. (1959-1968, 1971-1974, and 1979-1980). Additional guest books are from events including the dedication of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates College, and his funeral.

Organization and Arrangement

Chronological.

Scope and Content Note

The Artifacts series comprises three-dimensional objects associated with Edmund Muskie, his family, or his career.

Organization and Arrangement

The items have been organized into four subseries: A. Personalia; B. Presentation Pieces and Commemoratives; C. Campaign and Political Ephemera; and D. Professional Souvenirs.

Artifacts are numbered within each subseries (e.g., 1.01, 1.02, 2.01, 2.02).

Scope and Content Note

The Personalia subseries comprises personal artifacts that belonged to Edmund Muskie or members of his family, including his parents, Josephine and Stephen Muskie, and his wife, Jane G. Muskie.

Organization and Arrangement

Artifacts are numbered sequentially within each subseries.

Scope and Content Note

The Presentation Pieces and Commemoratives subseries comprises artifacts that were given to Edmund S. Muskie to honor him, or in commemoration of an event. This subseries includes items such as plaques, keys to cities, trophies, and commemorative coins.

Organization and Arrangement

Artifacts are numbered sequentially within each subseries.

Scope and Content Note

The Campaign and Political Ephemera subseries comprises artifacts that were manufactured for a specific, limited use related to politics or a poiltical campaign. This subseries includes items such as buttons, bumper stickers, posters, and miscellaneous promotional items.

Organization and Arrangement

Artifacts are numbered sequentially within each subseries.

Scope and Content Note

The Professional Souvenirs subseries comprises artifacts that Muskie or his staff collected related to his professional duties as the Governor of Maine, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and a partner in the law firm of Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolfe. This subseries includes items such as telephone directories,

Organization and Arrangement

Artifacts are numbered sequentially within each subseries.

Scope and Content Note

The series comprises clippings related to Muskie's political career, personal life, and death.

The majority of the series, which has been microfilmed, comprises clippings of articles from state and local newspapers and some out-of-state publications that were collected by the staff of his Waterville, Maine, office. The "Special Clippings" segment includes articles on his 1954 and 1956 gubernatorial campaigns, and his first two years in the U.S. Senate. The "Senator Muskie's Clippings" and "General" segments cover a wide range of subjects of interest to Muskie and his staff, such as Muskie's legislative and political activities, his public appearances, federal grants to local projects, and news items on such topics as employment and local economic conditions. The remaining segments deal with specific topics, such as the Maine legislature, Muskie's 1970 Senate reelection campaign, a possible 1976 challenge against Muskie by Rep. William S. Cohen.

The remainder of the series has no