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Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; Committee for the Preservation of the White House; the White House crèche; highway beautification bill; Mike Mansfield; the death of President Holt of Austalia; traveling from Australia to Vietnam and Rome with LBJ; visiting the Vatican; LBJ’s decision
Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • firsthand experience with [Mike] Mansfield and Bob Byrd, so I couldn't answer that. End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview I 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Senator [Mike] Mansfield and myself. And the drafting and most of the work fell upon me. And the decision was made that our draft should be cleared with all the active candidates, so I cleared this draft with then-Senator Johnson and I think
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mike Monroney and Mike Mansfield, and they scheduled a confirmation hearing. I'm back Sunday afternoon and I guess it was Monday morning I was talking to the two Mikes and Monroney said, "I'm going to schedule a confirmation hearing tomorrow morning
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • able to do that. Also on the Board--and I guess he was on by that point in time--the chairman of the board [was] John Mahan. Was it? G: M-A-H-A-N. C: Mahan was [Mike] Mansfield's guy. So I think knowing he had a board set up like that when he
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or nine o'clock. Now, Senator Mansfield, for whom I have the greatest affection-he started out being too easy. If I went to Senator Mansfield and said, this is my anniversary, or my birthday; I hope we can get through '~ike, early tonight; I've got
  • ; 1960 and 1964 elections; civil rights legislation; Dirksen/LBJ relationship; Medicare; LBJ’s foreign policy; Senator Mansfield; LBJ-Nixon transition; 3/31 announcement; War on Poverty in Kentucky; decision to retire; political parties; Ray Bliss.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and at that point it became clear that the only thing we could do was ask for some kind of an extension--thirty days was what [Carl] Albert had suggested, I notice here--and recommend some final disposition of this thing at the end of that extension. [Mike
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this point in time, that evening meeting, Washington time--Senator Mansfield's clear and explicit dissent and the President's rather brusque rejection of it . Senator Mansfield was invited to a large meeting . I've forgotten how this spaced with the calls
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Leader, Mike Mansfield, in the Senate, Speaker [John] McCormack. you know, target what he should ask them and what LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • from General Taylor, now chief of staff, U.S. Army. He wanted to know if there was any cogent reason why I shouldn't go to South Vietnam to relieve, or to replace General Mike, or Iron Mike, O'Daniel. G: Excuse me, sir, you called him Iron Mike. H
  • Biographical information; history of U.S. activities in South Vietnam; assignment to Vietnam; Korea; Kumsong salient; Mike O’Daniel; MAAG in Vietnam; 1955 relations with the French; Edward Lansdale; early political-military situation; religious
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XIII -- 13 be. Mike Mansfield
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • style very much. I remember He would personally come one on one and talk with senators a great deal, which practice later was abandoned entirely by Mansfield. .&. . . . . .m.____________ ~ __________________ ln_l__ LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy G: Right. And was spat on in Caracas~ -~ XII -- 29 LBJ went to the airport along with [Hubert] Humphrey and [Mike] Mansfield to meet Nixon when he returned and was somewhat criticized for that. R: Boy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; JFK's leadership through the crisis; keeping Pierre Salinger and JFK informed about legislative matters; press relations under JFK; Peter Lisagor; contact with John Bailey and the Democratic National Committee; Mike Mansfield's leadership style as senate
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • toward the vote, I know in the Senate where we had the filibuster, Mike Manatos, the President's Senate man, played a role. But the real managing of it and dealing with the tactical decisions appeared to me to be in Nick Katzenbach's hands. B: What
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the reason--? P: As soon as [Mike] Mansfield came in, which was only three years after I got here, then the Steering Committee functioned and Mansfield didn't make any effort to influence it. In fact, he felt that it was up to the Steering Committee to do
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did Stong have the support of the leadership on that? The majority leader? D: Oh, yes. That's possibly partly because the leader at that time was Senator [Mike] Mansfield and Stong was a Montanan and a close associate of Senator Mansfield as well
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was not sick apparently at all. I asked him what his trouble had been and he said, "Well, I ate some bad food," and so then I asked him what he had done. He said he ate some hamburger or wieners, at noon; and he had had a talk with Mike Monroney and he'd
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the governors. Congressman [Charles] Diggs was named a vice chairman. Bob Wagner, the former mayor of New York, and Senator Mike Mansfield agreed to be vice chairmen. In each instance, it was necessary to ensure that these people were activists in the national
  • was able to purchase television time and allow Edmund Muskie to speak; 1970 election results nationwide; the Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy; a February 1971 meeting between O'Brien, Carl Albert, Mike Mansfield, and potential 1972 potential
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • president following the assassination of Kennedy, and he made me the manager of that bill. He asked Mike Mansfield, "Let Hubert Humphrey handle that bill," that comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1964, which I handled. Two things he did. First of all, he
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, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • delegates. A: That might be true. That certainly was true of his staff. I think all of us on the staff had just assumed that if Johnson could run the Senate and have the support of people like Mike Mansfield and Carl Hayden and other powerful senators who
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mansfield. As I recall, Kennedy then tried He was kidding about what a great job Mike Mansfield was doing and how he seemed to be working much longer hours than his predecessor who, of course, was Johnson .. I think that was it. Both of them were quite
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the power of the comptroller general. Whatever we decide to do, we've got to get the leadership, [Mike] Mansfield and [Everett] Dirksen, the Senate leadership, and the committee chairman aboard. And ended by saying, "Whatever you do"--it was another weekend
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President. He would also impound funds that we really didn't have to spend. Fowler said that rather than suspend the investment tax credit, he would rather have a corporate tax increase, and the President told him to go see Carl Albert, Mike Mansfield
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like he did with [Nike] Mansfield. rights bill passed. They wanted that civil It was written in Dirksen's office. just let him take the lead in order to help get it passed. Mansfield That must have been the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Lyndon
  • and control over Senate voting; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s rapport with Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen; National Defense Education Bill; how LBJ dealt with Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . As a general rule I think the answer would be yes. But I think, you know, a [Everett] Dirksen or a [Mike] Mansfield would have a lot more influence than just a senator. But I think Johnson was pretty sensitive about all those sort of courtesy issues. As I said
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . . And he did. The Majority Leader can get his own whip if he really wants to. Now, [Mike] Mansfield never would. He just didn't take any sides. But I don't think it's any--at least it hasn't been in the past--that there has been a difference between
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the same time we had 14(b) on the floor of the Senate. And ultimately, although I see here [that] between the President and his immediate staff, we called sixty-one senators on 14(b), we could not break a filibuster. And [Mike] Mansfield finally in late
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • against Senator [Mike] Mansfield and of course Senator Sl,mington and others. He felt that by reason of having been in the House and so on, that I for some reason could __be very helpful in representing the Democrats in a way in which the excesses
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and with Mike Mansfield, who was still hanging on when I was in the White House, I forget, to some town in Montana [with] a big air force base. But the only one in which somebody came along and made a pretty damned good case that we'd made a mistake
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • coming to is that Senator [Michael] Mansfield came over late in 1962--1 don't have an exact date--and he reported that the situation was worse than it had been in 1955, which on the face of it sounds rather contradictory. But I'm not sure if that had any
  • Circumstances of assignment to Vietnam; attitude toward Diem; Edward Lansdale; meeting with LBJ; Taylor-Rostow mission; the Thompson mission; Trueheart Commission; strategic hamlet program; meetings with Diem; Mike Mansfield visit; Buddhists; period
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the House and kept the members in. G: But in the Senate you didn't have even the support of the--? O: On the Senate side, Mike Mansfield was not enthusiastic. Neither was [John] Pastore, who was chairman of the committee. Beyond that, [Everett] Dirksen
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Sure I do. We had a horrible situation because, under the ordinary seniority rule, anybody that was a senior senator would have first call on any committee vacancy. I'm going to use John Kennedy and Scoop Jackson and Mike Mansfield as illustrations
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [?] and other Forest Service-Job Corps and I think [Mike] Mansfield got in on L W J X \ V developed an agreement. Mansfield got it out of Sarge someway, or one of Sarge's successors, that selected input. word. We weren't going to take the worst ones
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Mills and Mike Mansfield I guess Mike Mansfield had come from Washington. And let's see, who else was there--! guess that was it except for Jim Jones and Joe Califano. Anyway, we gathered in the guest house, and we went through the whole program. Joe
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Subversive Activities Control Board, and Mike Mansfield loved John Mahan. The issue that was coming up was the appropriations and authorization to continue the board. And there was also a vacancy on the board at that point. I think one of the fellows had
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the record, but in retrospect and in view of things that have been said later by Senator [Hike] Mansfield and others about what President Kennedy's intentions were, this may have reflected more of President Kennedy's thinking than I was aware at the time. So