Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent announcement that the United States will increase its commitment in Vietnam to the Korean-war level of 400,000 men by this Spring indicates that the Administration is losing hope of negotiations. Moderate critics of the war, such as Senators Kennedy and Mansfield, were still issuing pleas for stronger diplomatic initiatives last week, but because of the increasingly polarized views on either side, no grounds exist for any satisfactory agreement...
...American negotiators. As General Maxwell Taylor, former American Ambassador to Saigon, explained in a television interview last August, Saigon military leaders "would never tolerate a Government that was caught surreptitiously or overtly negotiating with the Viet Cong or Hanoi." Consequently, American policy has hardened. On October 19, Senator Mansfield confirmed and criticized a leak from "high government officials" reported by UPI which stated that the U.S. would never "let the Commies get a toehold" in South Vietnam...
...Louisiana's Democratic Senator Russell Long has been in the U.S. Senate for 17 years, and seems assured of remaining there as long as he wants the job. As Democratic whip, he is Mike Mansfield's heir apparent to the Senate's majority leadership. In addition, with the resignation of Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd (TIME, Nov. 19), Long, the ranking Democrat on Byrd's powerful Senate Finance Committee, will automatically become committee chairman when Congress reconvenes in January. Seldom in Senate history has one man held two such pivotal posts, and there were hints last week...
...court was desperate to avoid the Constitutional issue," Mansfield observed...
...Court has never decided the issue of a man whose moral object is confined to one war." Mansfield noted, "but in a lot of remarks it has indicated that no, there is no such right...