Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremony was swiftly followed-all in the White House-by Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's resume of Johnson-proposed constitutional amendments, Robert McNamara's rundown of defense expenditures, a discussion of tax revision by Treasury Secretary Fowler, and brief appearances by House Speaker McCormack, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield and Vice President Humphrey...
...Mansfield of Montana proposed that the Democrats arm themselves with four assistant whips to aid Louisiana's Russell Long, the Democratic whip. He recommended Maryland's Daniel Brewster, Michigan's Philip Hart, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and Maine's Edmund Muskie. Democrats gave unanimous approval to both plan and candidates. Some saw Mansfield's move as an attempt to put a brake on the runaway ambitions of Louisiana's Long, who also takes over the duties of chairman of the Finance Committee this session and is believed by some Democrats to have...
They will be greeting, driving, and arranging hotel accommodations for such Democratic Party leaders as Mike Mansfield and the two Kennedy brothers. Most of the members of the late President John F. Kennedy's "Irish Mafia" will attend the dinner, ostensibly to honor O'Donnell for his work as Special Assistant and Appointments Secretary to President Kennedy...
...Byrd, who resigned from the Senate in November because of ill health. Long will be the first man in memory to hold both jobs, but Senate friends say that he has his eye on yet another job: the Senate majority leadership, now held by Montana's unassertive Mike Mansfield. "We all love Mike," says one Democratic Senator, "but many of us don't like the way he runs the Senate. With Long, you always know where he stands, because he's not afraid to sound off on issues...
...they are gifted, young writers suffer the indignity of being compared to somebody else. So it was with Australian-born Shirley Hazzard when a collection of her short stories was published in 1963. As evocative as but perhaps less crisp than the young Katherine Mansfield? An ear for dialogue that matches Elizabeth Bowen's but lacks her sure sense of social structure? And somehow falls short of Rosamond Lehmann...