Candor is as much a part of Edmund Muskie as his easy grin and his sincere visage. Last Juneamazingly early by the coy calendar of most politicians the Democratic Senator from Maine told an interviewer that "the idea of running for President is in a remote corner of my mind." Then Muskie casually listed two drawbacks: his own lack of familiarity and identification with some national issues and the fact that, as matters then stood, Senator Edward Kennedy could get the Democratic nomination in 1972 "for the asking."
The drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne caused Kennedy to renounce presidential ambitions,...
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