Word: mansfield
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...Senate, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield declared bluntly that Washington should quit trying to direct the Diem regime and concentrate on the "ugly inadequacy" of U.S. agencies in South Viet Nam. Unless U.S. officials on the spot cooperate fully with Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, declared Mansfield, "we are face to face with a disaster in Viet...
...debate on the nuclear test ban treaty got under way with exactly eight members of the U.S. Senate on hand. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, reasoning that more Senators should be present for the occasion, moved a quorum call. Still, few showed up, so Mansfield rescinded the call...
...Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen was scheduled to speak did the Senate begin to fill. It was known that Dirksen, after harboring "grave doubts," had come around to approval. It was also known that in order to dispel some of the doubts about the treaty, Dirksen and Majority Leader Mansfield had asked President Kennedy to write a letter that Ev would read to the Senate. In his letter, the President offered Senate doubters "unqualified and unequivocal assurances" that the U.S. would maintain its readiness to resume testing, that it would "take all necessary action" if Russia used Cuba to circumvent...
When it was all over, Mike Mansfield rose, faced his colleague across the aisle, and said, "I salute a great American." The debate may go on until some time next week, but after Ev Dirksen, it would surely be all anticlimax. For his support of the treaty, and his speech on its behalf, had assured its ratification...
...Senate floor, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield kicked off the debate about ratification. Even while strongly supporting it, Mansfield made no extravagant claims about what the treaty might achieve. Said he: "Do not look for miracles from this treaty. There are none. This nation, the Soviet Union, and the world are destined to live for a long time with feet dangling over the grave that beckons to the human civilization which is our common heritage. Against that immense void of darkness, this treaty is a feeble candle. It is a flicker of light where there has been no light." When...