Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was on his feet, waiting. Into the Senate and down the aisle came a clerk of the House of Representatives, carrying the House-approved civil rights bill...
...President," said Mansfield, "I request that House bill 7152 be read the first time." The Senate clerk read the bill's title. "Mr. President," said Mansfield, "I object to the second reading of the bill today." Those two sentences were part of an elaborate parliamentary maneuver aimed at bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James Eastland, who could be expected to keep the bill gathering dust for months. By his action, Mansfield retained control of the bill's course. He then announced that the Senate will first take up the Administration...
...Pyrotechnics. Mansfield told the Senate that he had appointed Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, a longtime champion of civil rights,* as floor manager of the bill. Humphrey will have one Democratic deputy for each of the bill's three major sections: Washington's Warren Magnuson on public accommodations, Pennsylvania's Joe Clark on FEPC, Michigan's Philip Hart on new judicial procedures...
After setting his tactics in train, Mansfield sought to shape the moral tone of the impending debate. In a Senate speech, he declared: "Individually, each Senator will consult his conscience and his constituency on this issue. It is for each Senator to determine whether he is prepared to ignore, to evade or to deny this issue or some aspect of it. But it would be a tragic error if this body as a whole were to elect the closed-eyes course of inaction...
...even the semblance of an answer to the burning questions which now confront the nation and, hence, this Senate. We Senators would be well advised to search, not in the Senate rules book, but in the Golden Rule for the semblance of an adequate answer." "Hope for the Republic." Mansfield also made a special plea to Republican Leader Everett Dirksen. Said he: "I appeal to the distinguished minority leader, whose patriotism has always taken precedence over his partisanship, to join with me-and I know he will-in finding the Senate's best possible contribution at this time...