Word: mansfield
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Though Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright denounced the assault as "just another indication of the rising momentum of fighting" and urged "some drastic action to halt it," his Democratic colleague Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was less alarmed. "Our troops have gone only to the doorstep of North Viet Nam," he said. "They are operating south of the 17th parallel...
...some it was an auspicious beginning. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield welcomed the pullback as the first move toward paring America's overwhelming military dominance in a self-sufficient Europe. To others, however, it was an open invitation to renewed Soviet belligerence. U.S. Army General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sharply disagreed with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision, arguing that "there is no military justification for any reduction of military forces in Central Europe...
...weeks, the tax bill became burdened with such extraneous amendments as tax breaks for parents supporting college students, cutting the age for male social-welfare recipients, restricting imports on beef and lamb, and cutting the depletion allowance for oilmen. "Ah'm game for anything," announced Long. When Mike Mansfield tried to halt the farce with a compromise motion, so much confusion and misunderstanding resulted from the intricate parliamentary procedures that Mansfield ended up voting against his own amendment...
...which would give the traditionally money-short Democrats extra campaign funds. Even with his latest rebuff, Long was not about to quit. "If need be," he said, "we ought to stay here until Christmas or New Year's to do what is best for the country." Snapped Mansfield: "I cannot believe that the Senate desires to repeat this demeaning indulgence...
...freshman's bill, the Percy proposal received unwontedly enthusiastic backing from the Senate's 36 Republicans-and mild praise from Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In the House, Cosponsor William Widnall of New Jersey could count on at least 100 votes. The bill also drew a scathing assault from HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, who blasted it as "totally unsupported by any factual analyses as to the kind and amount of subsidy that would be required for workable home ownership by poor families." Weaver's nine-page critique seemed to reflect a possessiveness about the urban problems that...