Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President got into motion by visiting Bethesda Naval Hospital to call on several ailing legislators-including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
...some 330,000 men in and around South Viet Nam, but also faces the threat of indefinite Red Chinese intransigence and of fresh guerrilla wars. While a few Americans, particularly on the left, are urging the U.S. to pull out of Viet Nam, others, including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and 15 of his colleagues, suggest that U.S. ground forces in Europe ought to be cut substantially...
...doctors." Dirksen is expected to stay in the hospital for two weeks, after which he will be on crutches for two months or so. Meanwhile, with no major legislation scheduled for immediate Senate action, the mishap had one welcome effect. His hospital stay, as Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield noted, will give the hard-driving Republican a "well-earned rest...
...amendment would still have required ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures-and three-fourths have already completed the onerous task of reapportionment with, as yet, none of the dire consequences foreseen by Dirksen. Though Ev vowed doggedly to make a fourth try next year, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield pronounced the Dirksen amendment "a dead issue...
...Wester, a junior from North House, kept East from making a clean sweep by swimming the 20-yard butter-fly in 11 seconds flat, a new pool record. Halmed the other record when senior Jane Mansfield clocked a 20.4-second time for the 40-yard breaststroke...