Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loudmouthed oaf from Texas. As she tells it, his cronies (Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, Joe Alsop, Sam Rayburn) maneuvered him into the vice-presidency but his legendary prowess at senatorial politics was a fraud. Mrs. Lincoln even claims that President Kennedy came to rely on Bob Kerr and Mike Mansfield when his programs were stalled on Capitol Hill, believing that Johnson hung around talking instead of getting legislation moving...
...commendable job of reporting state politics and carries as much national and international news as most papers its size. But all too often news stories turn out to be only slightly disguised Loeb opinions. ASKS U.S. BELLY CRAWL bawled the banner headline over a story about Senator Mike Mansfield urging the U.S. to confess that the Pueblo was in North Korean waters if the admission would bring about the release of the crew. Not long ago, the Union Leader happily featured a Manchester gravestone dealer who had placed a sign in his showroom window: "Save every bomb for Russia...
...next act of this saddening spectacle will be played out on Monday when Senator Mansfield (D-Mont.) will again try to close the discussion. To get the open housing bill through, supporters will probably offer to exempt single-family homes. At present only owner-occupied homes of up to four units are exempt, the "Mrs. Murphy's boarding houses." On the civil rights bill, Dirksen himself has offered an amendment, suggesting that the states be allowed six months to act against the offenders. The federal government would interfere only after six months, if a state had failed to take action...
...have just written a letter to Senator Mansfield suggesting that, in the light of his remark in connection with the Pueblo incident, we should admit our guilt, regardless of facts, and that he should introduce into the Senate a bill to change our national bird from the American eagle to a chicken...
...break the impasse, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen conferred with Attorney General Ramsey Clark on a possible compromise measure. Before they could even produce one, Southern Democrats swore they would talk it to death, and Northern liberals began speaking darkly of a "cave...