Word: mansfield
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has favored even greater reductions, but he sounded a monitory note. "Notwithstanding the diminution of the U.S. military presence abroad," he said, "the U.S. is not about to disappear from the international scene. This nation's weight is immense and it will continue to be felt in many ways and in many places." It was a timely reminder...
...WALTER MANSFIELD, 60, of New York, on the Second Circuit. Before moving up to the court of appeals in June, Mansfield sat for five years as a district court judge, where he made a distinguished record. One well-publicized decision required McSorley's Old Ale House in Manhattan to admit women. "Without suggesting that chivalry is dead," he wrote, "we no longer hold to Shakespeare's immortal phrase, 'Frailty, thy name is woman...
MAJORITY Leader Mike Mansfield called the Senate into session at 9 a.m. Friday, three hours earlier than usual, so that his colleagues would have plenty of time to get their perorations into the record before the hour agreed upon for voting -7 p.m. There was an air of anticlimax in the chamber: bitter skirmishing over amendments to the bill had ended two days before, with consistent victories for Administration lobbyists who twisted arms and scraped senatorial egos. Still, there seemed no doubt that the bill would pass. White House congressional liaison men had vanished from Capitol Hill. Their chief, Clark...
...aims. Congress has often drastically reduced the foreign aid requests of Presidents, including a slash of one-third in President Johnson's fiscal 1964 request and 40% in his 1969 program. Cries for reform have grown louder. In voting against the bill last week. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged a whole "new foreign aid concept," complaining that the program had become a "grab bag" with no coherent principles guiding its distribution. He and others suggested funneling funds through multinational agencies to remove resentment against U.S. dollar diplomacy. NEW NATIONALISM. While many Senators contended that they would support...
...outrage seemed a little tired, a little artificial, but it was not confined to the right. Capitol Hill was boiling all week. The normally mild-mannered Senate minority leader, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, spoke scornfully of "hotpants principalities" that had opposed the U.S. He and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana concurred in recommending that the U.S. share of U.N. support be cut back from its present 31.52% of the U.N. budget. The Senate later passed a resolution, sponsored by New York Republican-Conservative James Buckley, urging the President to negotiate a reduction of that share...