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A former presidential candidate was speaking, but the young kids in attendance didn’t care. They had better things to do.
While Sen. Edmund Muskie droned about “hard decisions” to the almost 6,000 students, parents and spectators gathered for the University of Evansville’s commencement on June 9, 1974, children ignored the speech and ran for the weird-looking linden tree that sat just beyond the speaker’s platform.
They climbed through low-slung branches that jutted from multiple trunks like octopus arms – and probably had a better time that day than anyone else.
They were just doing what several people did in the decades before and would go on to do in the decades after. The tree that loomed in front of Olmstead Administration Hall became a magnet for generations of students. They studied in its shade, snapped selfies in its branches, and some even came back after graduation have their wedding photos taken next to it.
From Henry Knox to William Cohen, a look back on Cabinet members with Maine connections
Henry Knox was just the first in a long line of leaders with Maine connections to serve in presidential cabinets and traces of them can be found all over the state Author: Gabrielle Mannino (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 2:04 PM EST February 25, 2021 Updated: 2:04 PM EST February 25, 2021
MAINE, USA February 25 has a special place in presidential history. On this day in 1793, President George Washington held his first Cabinet meeting at his home in Mount Vernon.
Washington’s secretary of war, Henry Knox, got the job by distinguishing himself in battle as a general in the Revolutionary War. After his political career ended, Knox, who was born in Boston, retired to Maine and lived out the rest of his life at Montpelier, his home in Thomaston. The original house came down long ago, but a replica was built in 1929 and remains open to visitor
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower eats a steak dinner at the Skowhegan home of Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in June 1955. Smith is sitting next to Eisenhower, and Gov. Edmund Muskie is seated across from the president.
Photo courtesy of Margaret Chase Smith Library
On June 27, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech at the Skowhegan Fairgrounds. Afterward, he joined Sen. Margaret Chase Smith at her home in Skowhegan for a picnic on her lawn.