Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the waning days of last year's congressional session, Dirksen's aim was to block Administration attempts to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw union membership as a condition of employment. The talkathon began when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield moved that the Senate take up the repeal bill; Dirksen got the floor -and held on for dear life...
...oldtime Bible-spouting, rip-snorting oratory. Dirksen and his filibuster co-captain, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, had assigned each of their 27 teammates to a group and a captain; each was prepared to carry on night and day if pushed. But nobody was pushing. Majority Leader Mansfield refused to hold marathon sessions, saw to it that the Senate always recessed in time for dinner, and once even in time for lunch-all of which moved Oregon's waspish Wayne Morse to complain that the Senate was keeping "banker's hours...
...permit one committee to meet and not another." Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright protested in vain that his Foreign Relations Committee urgently needed to review President Johnson's $275 million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal of 14(b). "Is compulsory unionism more important than the young men who are slogging among the insects and the slime and the mud of Viet Nam?" asked Dirksen. "If Viet Nam is important, good. Then let the President come down...
...they will send their armics into Vietnam if we violate, the territorial integrity of North Vietnam. China could never stand by if we were defeating Hanoi in an all-out war, and their entry would mean a huge, brutal, and impossible land war for the United States, as the Mansfield report recently argued...
...role in Viet Nam. Fresh from a week's visit to Saigon, Javits rose on the floor of the Senate to declare that "the President would and should have the support of the overwhelming majority of the American people if he decides to resume the limited bombing." Challenging Mansfield's recent jeremiad foreseeing a "bottomless Asian land war," Javits argued that "militarily, the situation is at least encouraging"; that "the impact of our buildup is just beginning to be felt," and that most South Vietnamese now believe, as they plainly did not a year ago, that the Viet...