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Article: A New Hampshire Ghost; Can Hillary Clinton Avoid What Ed Muskie Couldn't?
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- The Washington Post
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- February 14, 2007
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A specter was haunting Hillary Clinton as she campaigned in New
Hampshire this weekend: the specter of Ed Muskie.
As the ancient or merely studious among us will recall, the
Democratic senator from Maine, who'd been Hubert Humphrey's running
mate in 1968, entered his party's presidential contest in 1972 as
the front-runner. His prospects were dashed in the New Hampshire
snows, however. As popular memory has it, an indignant Muskie
started crying while refuting a silly attack on him (though whether
he was genuinely upset or merely sniffling during a frigid outdoor
news conference was never authoritatively resolved). Muskie's more
serious problem, however, was the Vietnam War, which he ...