Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights bill behind it before adjournment. The tax-cut bill, which has already passed the House, remains the subject of lengthy hearings before the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Virginia's Conservative Democrat Harry Byrd; even after Johnson's speech, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could promise only that the bill would be first on the agenda for floor debate when the Senate reconvenes next January...
...Sunday, the body lay in state beneath the Capitol rotunda. The casket, draped in a flag and surrounded by a five-service military honor guard, was never to be opened because the President had been deeply disfigured. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield fought through sobs to read a eulogy that, although well-meaning, was cruel in its emotion: "There was the sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands...
...Johnson and Lady Bird emerged from the plane and were quickly engulfed by the men Johnson has known best in his quarter-century of Government service: the leaders of Congress. There was little talk. Senate Majority whip Hubert Humphrey cried openly. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield gripped Johnson's hands...
...Export-Import Bank to guarantee Russian payments to commercial traders in the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal. That threatened to throw the aid bill or the wheat deal-or both-back into a welter of confusion and conflict. Only under the urging of both Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen did Mundt finally agree to withdraw his amendment and to submit it later as separate legislation...
...foreign aid program, the situation may already have gone beyond remedy by words, no matter how reasonable. Not even a bipartisan effort by the Senate's leaders could stem the anti-foreign aid tide. In the vain hope of preventing worse cuts, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen had agreed to drop $385 million from the $4.2 billion recommended by Foreign Relations. But the Senate went even farther, whacked $25 million from the Development Loan Fund, $125 million from the President's foreign aid contingency fund, reapplied $75 million of that to increase the Alliance...