Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hasn't done anything wrong." At Tricia's side, Ed Cox declared that Nixon is the victim of "one of the most vicious witch hunts in American history." But in a low-key reply to Nixon's State of the Union message, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield explained that Watergate inquiries cannot suddenly cease. "Whether it is months or years, there are no judicial shortcuts...
...tape recordings of these conversations from the agency's files. When he asked about the tapes, however, he was told that they had all been destroyed on Jan. 18, 1973. That was exactly one day after the CIA had received a letter from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield requesting that all evidence relevant to the Watergate investigation be safeguarded...
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) was another softliner on a number of issues. The day after Kennedy's inauguration, Mansfield relayed to him Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma's complaints about U.S. overreaction to Laotian communists and obstruction of Phouma's neutralist policy. "These shortcomings, in my opinion, exist not only in Laos but elsewhere in comparable situations around the world," Mansfield added...
After the Bay of Pigs invasion, similarly, Mansfield wrote that "our sensitivity to this personality [Fidel Castro] and to the Cuban people is not what it ought to be." He recommended "seriously re-evaluating our own base policies on the rim of the Soviet Union" if there was to be forceful opposition to "the establishment of Soviet missiles or any other kind of base for Russian forces in Cuba...
While the House has been struggling with impeachment, the Senate has adopted an attitude of watchful waiting on the issue. Neither Majority Leader Mike Mansfield nor Minority Leader Hugh Scott has even allowed any time for an impeachment trial in their advance planning for the year. "I don't think the House will impeach," says Scott flatly. In an effort to keep wavering Republicans in line, Scott has warned: "History does not deal gently with regicides." For his part, Mansfield hopes that the House will not impeach "because politically it will help no one, and it will hurt...