Word: mansfield
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...President's trip, the lineup of Americans eager to go to China was growing almost as long as the Great Wall. Julie and David Eisenhower and Tricia and Eddie Cox have been invited to Peking as tourists. Invitations have also been extended to Senate Leaders Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott-much to the annoyance of House Speaker Carl Albert and Minority Leader Gerald Ford, who wondered why they could not go too. Albert warned that if the institutional slight was not corrected, "appropriate action" would be taken. An apologetic White House assured the Congressmen that other invitations from Peking...
...Robert Dole, chairman of the Republican National Committee, slyly offered an almost identical amendment. He again alerted Agnew to be on hand. "We had word," Dole explained later, "that Muskie had to leave, that McGovern had taken off. We thought we might just luck out." The Senate leaders, Democrat Mansfield and Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, were battling hard for a less restrictive antibusing measure of their own. At the end of the roll call, the Dole amendment led, 40 to 37. Then stragglers walked dramatically into the chamber. Dole's information turned out to be wrong: both McGovern...
Legal Appeals. Earlier in the tangled procedure, the Senate had adopted by a decisive margin a far milder antibusing amendment proposed by Republican Leader Hugh Scott and Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. Offered primarily to stave off the harsh Griffin measure, and to close out the possibility of a constitutional amendment banning busing, it was supported by a number of civil rights liberals. The amendment prevents the use of any federal funds for racial busing unless local school districts request the money-but it would not affect court orders requiring districts to bus. The amendment also delays the execution...
Both the Griffin and Scott-Mansfield amendments are, at least momentarily, part of the Senate bill. If the bill is finally approved, the provisions would have to be compromised in conference committee with the House bill, which includes a flat ban against the use of federal funds for busing. The final bill might well be of doubtful constitutionality requiring long litigation...
...Administration proposals also wind through the Congress, the legal situation would remain confused. But already it was clear, protested Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that even the mild Scott-Mansfield amendment "serves public notice that we have given up the struggle to end discrimination." Ribicoff's own proposal has been to insist that all school districts, North and South, be racially balanced within ten years-which would require either massive busing or, as Ribicoff prefers, radically altered neighborhoods...