Word: mansfield
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With a nod toward Capitol Hill, where Montana's Mike Mansfield and other Senators have recently been debating the nation's dwindling silver resources, Washington Star Fashion Editor Eleni last week observed, "They keep wondering what's happened to the silver supply. Well, I could tell them. It's all on women's backs...
...direction than in tempo. "The people wanted to pause and do a little inventorying," said Reagan. "They've been asking, 'Just where are we going?' " Democrats agreed. New York Senator Robert Kennedy acknowledged: "Some parts of the country want to go slower than others." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield conceded that the time had come for Congress to do some "tightening up" of the programs that he helped enact. Slowdown sentiment is certain to make itself felt the first time Congress is asked to fund an expensive foreign-aid or domestic program. "I should judge," said Dirksen, "that the scalpel...
...Senate) viewed these accomplishments with understandable partisan pride. Rhapsodized House Speaker John McCormack: "This is the Congress of fulfillment, the Congress of our accomplished hopes, the Congress of our realized dreams. The Democratic Party has again found political and social immortality." More matter-of-factly, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield observed last week: "Both the quality and the quantity of legislation were good. Of course, a great deal of it simply came to a head; previous Congresses deserve credit for getting ready much of what we passed this year and in 1965. In some areas, we have gone...
Calling Brisbane. Senate Leader Mansfield finally managed to summon back enough campaigning Senators (many of them aboard Air Force planes) on Saturday to assure a quorum. The bill flipped through by a 31-22 vote. By late afternoon, Mansfield and Acting House Majority Leader Hale Boggs had made their traditional adjournment calls to the President-in Brisbane, Australia, waking him from a sound sleep. Said the President to Boggs, "Congress has done an outstanding job." Replied Boggs: "Go back to sleep, Mr. President...
...Governor, promised in 1964 to serve it out. The Senator also invokes his congressional experience, while tagging Babcock as a political novice beholden to business interests-though Metcalf himself relies heavily on Big Labor's support. Above all, Metcalf is counting on help from Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, the mahatma of Montana politics...