Word: mansfield
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...House. The Senate's Government Operations Committee had completed its hearings, but Chairman John McClellan (who opposed the measure) requested a brief delay before submitting the committee report. Since it then appeared that the House would withhold its vote until the Senate acted, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield graciously agreed: "I believe it is only fair and proper that the Senate observe the normal rules of procedure...
...Vice President, Johnson presides over the Senate-but he certainly does not run it. His influence over Senate affairs has been on the wane ever since the first Democratic conference under the New Frontier. At that meeting, new Majority Leader Mike Mansfield proposed that Vice President Johnson continue in his post as presiding officer of meetings of the Senate Democratic conference. A group of Democrats, including Tennessee's Albert Gore and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, protested that it meant an invasion by the executive branch...
...bitter debate that followed, Mansfield threatened to resign if Johnson was not elected, and on that personal basis the motion was carried. But 17 Democrats voted against it- and Lyndon Johnson knows a slap in the face when he feels one. Since then he has attended Democratic conferences with decreasing frequency, presided only long enough to call the meetings to order and turn the gavel over to Mansfield. Says a Democratic Senator of Lyndon's legislative role: "As Mansfield's grip tightens, Lyndon is more and more out of it." But if L.BJ.'s Senate influence...
Seemingly headed for an off-screen Oscar for her supporting role in a deep-water drama was Jayne Mansfield, 28. Water-skiing from a chartered outboard off Nassau, the busty cinemorsel, her muscleman husband Mickey ("Mr. Universe of 1956") Hargitay and a friendly publicist suddenly turned up missing-a calamity that evoked outsize headlines all across the U.S. plus a massive. Coast Guard-led search. Rescued after a night on a lonely islet, the castaways explained that Jayne had frenziedly overturned their boat after the party spotted sharks (in waters in which the Nassau Yacht Club hadn't seen...
Roman Catholic Kennedy again omitted aid to parochial schools, the issue that killed last year's federal aid bill. Kennedy drew fast support from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, himself a Catholic. If aid to public schools is ignored, said Mansfield, "the nation will pay an enormous price in the years ahead." And though he favors aid to parochial schools, House Speaker John McCormack, also a Catholic, promised to "do everything possible to get the school bill out on the House floor...