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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • forward, then, because I want to ask you, how do you think he regarded the Democratic majority leader in the Senate at the time he was president, who was Mike Mansfield? J: Mike was an intellectual. Mike was a very able man and he had great respect
  • ; a Texas Exes banquet on March 2, 1960; factors that made LBJ a great majority leader; Mike Mansfield as Senate majority leader; Charles and Jane Engelhard; Mrs. Johnson's introduction to highway billboard concerns through Senators Richard and Maureen
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Mrs. Sam Johnson? J: Well, you see, we still had Dillman, so we went right on back to Dillman. Sometime that fall, Jim Rowe wrote Lyndon and asked him for some assistance, a contribution, for Mike Mansfield who was running for the Senate in Montana
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Johnson -- XXXIII -- 9 there and stayed two months, I think. The senators that Lyndon was working with mostly in those days were Senator [Walter] George of course, and [Mike] Mansfield, and [Stuart] Symington, and Dick Russell, Clements
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • some blame for that, Lyndon felt. And he had a strong affection for Earle, got along with him so (inaudible). Senator [Mike] Mansfield he admired intensely, but Mansfield was much more an independent man (inaudible). So that is the way we began the year
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the seniority rule enough to give every Democratic freshman at least one important committee assignment. He put Stu Symington on Armed Services, and Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey on Foreign Relations, and John Kennedy on Labor and Public Welfare, and Henry
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came. There was Buchanan Dam, and then later Mansfield, which became I think Marshall Ford, didn't it? G: I think it was the other way around. Marshall Ford became Mansfield, didn't it? J: Maybe so. And then Inks Dam, which was the lovely scenic
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)