Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana: "I don't know anybody in the Senate who's happy about it. A good many are disturbed. If they can't come up with alternatives, they see nothing to do but let the President take the responsibility. It hasn't been easy -and it won't be. It can't be settled soon-because...
...Johnson somehow got the idea that at a background-only session held for a few reporters Ford had inspired stories that the President was chicken; that Ford had told the newsmen that Johnson wanted to take a sterner, tougher stand on Viet Nam, but had retreated because mild Mike Mansfield was threat ening to raise a big row. If this had been true, Johnson might have had reason to get mad. But it wasn't-and it's one of the mysteries of Washington how Johnson got his lines of information clogged...
...Mike Mansfield had indeed read a memo in which he hoped that Johnson wouldn't be ferocious, but he also told Johnson that he'd support any action the President might take. Congressman Ford did have a lunch for nine Washington reporters, but he did not say anything about Mansfield's putting the blocks to Johnson. (TIME was at the lunch...
...Excellent." "Great." Early in the week, the President called half a dozen of his congressional leaders to the White House for breakfast, urged them to talk up the news of rising profits, paychecks and production. On the way out, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield lost no time in assuring the press that the nation's economic picture is "excellent." Next day, Commerce Secretary John Connor told the National Press Club: "Business is great, and it's going to get even better." At the same time, speaking in Manhattan to the American Marketing Association, Chief Presidential Economist Gardner Ackley...
Maureen Hayes Mansfield, LL.D., wife of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. She has supported and encouraged her husband with such competence that he regards her as "chiefly responsible for the political success of the Mans fields...