Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personality that so often rankled his colleagues. In the process, he became one of the Senate's most persuasive cloakroom negotiators, worked as one of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's most trusted lieutenants, and was named majority whip in 1961 when Lyndon left the Senate and Mike Mansfield moved up to become majority leader. Nowhere was Humphrey's negotiating skill better demonstrated than during passage of this year's civil rights bill...
...other vice-presidential heads bobbed up with alarming frequency. Bobby Kennedy, to hear the pollsters tell it, was the popular favorite. Then there was Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield, Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, and a score of others, including Humphrey's fellow Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy...
Veep, Veep, who had the Veep? Hubert Humphrey wanted to know. His Minnesota senatorial colleague, Gene McCarthy, wanted to know. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield wanted to know...
...this suspense was rather painful for Hubert. But what could he do about it? There was every likelihood that the President might pass him over and anoint someone else. An amiably placid, retiring man like Mike Mansfield might suit Lyndon much more than an extraverted bundle of action like Hubert, for example. If that happened. Humphrey, at Johnson's behest, would in all probability get as a consolation prize Mansfield's job as Democratic majority leader...
...days that averaged more than 18 hours each -ostensibly to create interest in tourism and conservation and to dedicate the $81.2 million Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah. But she never missed a chance to clutch hands and to praise needy candidates. In Montana she described Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield as one of Lyndon's "oldest and most trusted friends." In Utah she told the folks that Senator Frank Moss is "always watching out for Utah." In Wyoming she spoke of Senator Gale McGee: "Everybody knows Senator McGee-he's your home folks." And in Idaho she said...