Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy, with but six years' tenure, challenged and defeated Assistant Majority Leader Russell Long, who is 50 and has 20 years of service in the upper chamber. Ted Kennedy easily won the job of whip, the No. 2 party role in the Senate-next to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield-and a post whose power, limited as it is, he will probably use to the hilt...
...about Democrat Dean Rusk, said of Rogers: "He is a man of unquestioned integrity and ability. Although he has not had extensive experience directly in the field of foreign relations, I feel sure that his common sense and good judgment will serve the country well." Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called Rogers "an excellent choice." Years ago Nixon said of his friend: "He is more cautious than I am as to what ought to be done in most instances. I will take chances and move aggressively sometimes when he would not. This is good, for I know that he can always...
...Lyndon Johnson was seriously thinking of making amiable Mike Mansfield, majority leader of the Senate, his running mate instead of Hubert Humphrey. That way, the President reasoned, Humphrey could become majority leader, giving L.B.J. far more forceful Senate leadership and Humphrey a bigger reputation for an eventual presidential campaign of his own. It would also have spared Humphrey what was to become one of his most onerous burdens-his overly close association with an unpopular Administration. There were reports last week that Humphrey, too, had some unorthodox ideas this year about his own running mate: he wanted New York...
...Senate, however, wily Minor ity Leader Everett Dirksen reversed the procedure by stationing a page outside the doors to send Republicans away. Lacking a quorum of 51 the Senate was stymied, and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield finally signaled defeat 1 TV debates...
...mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this day, he has only one answer when asked about the state of American music: "I think Sun Treader is the greatest composition" And his reply to the obligatory question about his remarkable longevity is always the same: He thrives on dirty stories...