Word: mansfield
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Softer Line. One reason for the President's heavy reliance on the Big Three is that he can rarely depend on top congressional Democrats for the kind of support on Viet Nam that Bundy, McNamara and Rusk give him. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, for example, treads a far softer line, and only last week Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright was calling for a halt to U.S. air strikes. It was Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, in fact, who took to the Senate floor to defend Johnson's policy against Fulbright by declaring...
...Augstein leaked the whole thing to the press. Promptly headlined was the charge, from which all sorts of innuendoes were supposed to be drawn, that when Strauss was on a visit to Los Angeles in June 1960, Lockheed Aircraft arranged an "intimate" dinner for him and Actress Jayne Mansfield. From Lockheed came the smart rejoinder that the company had indeed entertained Strauss at an "intimate" dinner -for 14 U.S. and German officials. Jayne Mansfield, quite believably, said she had "never heard of Strauss," adding that in June 1960 she was avoiding public appearances, being seven months pregnant with her second...
...Jane Mansfield of East House was the highest individual scorer with two first place wins and a relay contribution, which earned her 14 1/2 points. Susie Burchell of South House was second with points...
Aimed at the Barricades. As Selma's angry impatience exploded, Lyndon Johnson realized that the time was ripe to go after the widest possible support for his bill. Key figures in the bipartisan drafting were Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted...
Other signers include David Hurwitz '25, associate clinical professor of Medicine; Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law; Yale Kamisar, visiting professor of Law; John, H. Mansfield '51, professor of Law; David L. Shapiro '54, assistant professor of Law; Henry J. Steiner '51, assistant professor of Law; and Bernard Wolfman, visiting professor...