Feds found classified papers among Edmund Muskie’s archives at Bates College

The former Secretary of State and U.S. senator from Maine was one of many high-ranking officials who mistakenly held on to secret paperwork.

50 years after the Clean Water Act, the Androscoggin River has changed dramatically

The river is the cleanest it's been in more than a century.

Watergate: After a half century, the scandal still reverberates

Before the House could vote on impeachment articles, some Republican Congressional leaders met with President Richard Nixon, and told him bluntly that if a trial took place in the Senate, approximately 80 senators — 13 votes above the 67 required — would vote to convict. Faced with these odds, Nixon resigned from the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974.

The day the dirty trickster apologized to Muskie

Maine’s Edmund Muskie: ‘Good-humored’ but with a ‘temper that verged on the volcanic’

Known for his environmental legacy, Muskie, according to then-Sen. Joe Biden, 'never believed that a career in politics obliged his head to divorce his heart.'

How Mainer Edmund Muskie’s tirade a half-century ago may have cost him the White House

One of the most successful dirty tricks in American political history wiped away the presidential hopes of Rumford's favorite son in 1972.