Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress the tide of Catholic pressure was rising fast. Without a word to the President, influential House Majority Leader John McCormack, a Massachusetts Roman Catholic known in Congressional cloakrooms as "Archbishop," came out for parochial school loans. (Montana's Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader and also a Catholic, carefully stayed neutral, told newsmen with a worried smile: "I'm just waiting for the Bells of St. Mary's to peal.") The 99 Catholic Congressmen (twelve in the Senate, 87 in the House), as well as Protestants from heavily Catholic districts, eyed a growing pile of mail...
...Hope Sports Award Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Hope honors the outstanding athletes of 1960, using Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Julie London, Jane Wyman, Jane Russell and Jayne Mansfield not as trophies but to help make the presentations...
...door to the lobby swung behind L.B.J., his successor, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, gathered up his papers and edged into Johnson's front-row aisle seat. It was just about the only solid evidence of his new office that Mansfield was likely to get. In his new role, or roles, Johnson will retain and pick up more titles and perquisites than a Bourbon king. He will continue as presiding officer over the Senate Democratic caucuses and director of party strategy-a job traditionally held by the majority leader, with an added $40,000-a-year payroll for office help...
...only take over the Vice President's ornate ceremonial office, just off the Marble Room, plus a roomy vice-presidential suite in the old Senate Office Building, but will retain his princely old majority leader's office in the Capitol Building, with its gorgeous aquamarine furnishings. Mansfield graciously de cided to keep his cramped old digs on the gallery floor...
...Call It Trivial." Where the pundits of the press have long underscored the importance of ideas and idealism in U.S. Government, now they praised Kennedy for his grasp of parochial politics. Glowed Columnist Doris Fleeson: "Kennedy is yielding every minor point to Vice President-elect Johnson and the Rayburri-Mansfield leadership of Congress as the New Frontiers approach. His apparent strategy is to give them enough rope, which is the classic maneuver of power politics. They are being consulted and shown every deference." Wrote the New York Post's liberal Columnist Max Lerner: "Call it a trivial item...