Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of the four flyers was brought up by Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who for weeks had been conducting a personal investigation, and now revealed some of the details. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield confirmed Dirksen's story, said that he had been told of the deaths in a secret briefing at the time. Since Dirksen had dug up the story on his own, Mansfield no longer felt bound to secrecy. "It is known," he said, "that a few experienced American airmen were employed to train Cuban pilots, navigators and radio operators. Several of these Americans volunteered...
...best performances of the day was turned in by Jane Mansfield who took a first in the individual medley. Miss Mansfield also made a stellar showing in the breast stroke where she finished second. Radcliffe finished second in team standings...
...first probings proved promising, so Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield quietly spread the word that he would seek a favorable vote in the Democratic steering committee, which makes committee assignments. At this point, Byrd, who steadfastly opposes medicare and the Kennedy tax program, let conservative Senators know that he considered the packing plan a personal affront. One of his calls went to his good friend Richard Russell of Georgia, who predictably viewed the plan as an outright assault upon the traditions of the Senate and upon his Southern colleague. On such issues, Russell can usually deliver the entire Southern conservative...
...that has changed. Gone is the ordeal, the struggle, the drama. All that is left is talk. Last week a filibuster was going on in the Senate, and it was the dullest show in town. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took the life out of the filibuster by limiting it to gentlemanly hours: from noon to around 6 p.m. Even if Mansfield carries out his threat to lengthen the working day to twelve hours, the Southerners would still return fresh to each day's round of talk...
...this time there did not seem to be much passion in the dispute. Although Majority Leader Mike Mansfield supported Anderson's stand, he declined to throw the Senate into round-the-clock sessions; in this, he was backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who said he did not care to see the Senate become "a chamber of walking coronaries." Sensing defeat, liberal New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, a strong anti-filibuster man, said that a vote would be preferable to an extension of the ritual that is becoming "almost like a minuet." Minnesota's liberal Hubert Humphrey agreed...