Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane crashed on either the New York or Georgia flight, the Senate would have been practically destroyed as a political institution. Should a majority of Senators die, the Senate could not even legally function. The prospect so disturbed Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield that he prepared a private memo on the problem. "Often the necessary precautions are not being taken to protect the Senate as a viable institution," he wrote. "Too often a significant percentage of the Senate, even up to a majority, is permitted to fly in a single aircraft. This is an unacceptable risk for the country...
...Mansfield issued orders to the Air Force that thereafter no more than twelve Senators might fly on the same plane at the same time. Thus last week, as 36 Senators left to attend the funeral of Louisiana's Allen Ellender, they were dispersed on five separate flights for the trip to New Orleans...
...difficult for George McGovern to take no for an answer." Finally, McGovern more or less gave up and began to court Humphrey. The Senate was working late on end-the-war amendments, on which each vote could prove decisive, when McGovern talked to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield about a mildly embarrassing problem: since he did not rate high in Senate seniority, McGovern enjoyed no hideaway where he could talk secretly with prospective candidates. Mansfield slipped McGovern his key ring; the candidate could use Mansfield's plush room just off the Senate chamber...
McGovern caught Humphrey's eye, motioned him to join him. "After this vote," Humphrey whispered. McGovern, just as persistent in his new chase, crawled over several Senators to whisper in Hubert's ear about Mansfield's room. Humphrey shook his head, pointed to the office of the Secretary of the Senate, which was closer. Then began a curious game in which George and Hubert tried to avoid press notice by entering and leaving the Senate chamber separately, taking different routes through various doors eventually leading to the Secretary's office, Room S-224. Once their timing...
...Republican leaders were equally surprised. They adopted what Senator Robert Dole called a "rearguard strategy." They decided to vote against the military aid bill, which was killed, 48-42. Curiously enough, such Senate doves as Mansfield and William Fulbright voted against it because they object to giving any military assistance to foreign countries...