Saturday, April 6, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.
David Broder is one of my favorite political columnists.
In the April 2 issue of the SUN, he did a eulogy of the recently deceased Maine politician, Ed Muskie. Broder did one paragraph with which I wholeheartedly agree.
This is the paragraph:
"He (Muskie) was the No. 2 man with Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota on the 1958 Democratic ticket -- perhaps the only ticket in my time on which both men clearly could have been and should have been president. Instead, we got Richard Nixon -- some consolation prize."
I add one other of the era who should have been president -- Adlai Stevenson.
Had any, or more, of the three been elected president, the whole nation, and certainly us nonrich, would have been better off. I admit I am prejudiced. I am an 84-year-old liberal (an endangered species in today's political world).
Orville Goplen
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