Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, the pause had fomented increasingly vociferous assaults on the President's policy in Viet Nam, largely from within his own party. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, challenged the very legality of U.S. involvement in the war. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged that the bombing be suspended "indefinitely." Nearly half of the Senate's Democrats are known to want Johnson to continue the lull; 77 House Democrats have formally expressed that hope in a letter to the President...
Unhappy Wretch. After detailing the effects of the pause, the President asked the Congressmen for their views. When Mansfield's turn came, he pulled out a hurriedly written two-page
...choice to the President, he also left the G.O.P. free to criticize Johnson, no matter what he did. Even so, Johnson was so delighted by his old friend's support that he seated Dirksen at the center table at last week's formal White House dinner. Mansfield was parked in a corner. Fulbright was not invited...
...which Teddy Kennedy was elected, was on display. Others on the dais included Andy Hatcher, a former White House press aide, and Dick Goodwin, a Kennedy speechwriter who was drafted by Lyndon Johnson to help with this month's State of the Union address. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield gave the principal speech...
...copy boy (a job about which, fortunately for all concerned, he has no jokes). Then he wrote comedy lines for Jack Paar, Groucho Marx, Jack E. Leonard and Jerry Lewis. Typical problem: how should Paar introduce a certain buxom movie star? Cavett's solution: "Here they are, Jayne Mansfield...