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Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Mansfield Dam. Buchanan Dam was on up there. But this was way in the future, so none of these things were very vivid to me. It was a class in which a number of the students knew each other, and we sat around and talked about the fact that Ray Lee must

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, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-- 16 Mike Mansfield. And he had to always think about the fact that if he lobbied for legislation that it looked as if he were still trying to be Majority Leader of the Senate. B: That's what I meant. I was wondering--beyond the personal relationships

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CHURCH -- I -- 22 argument. I didn't think that I could demand equal time in the White House, and I said nothing. I listened. Afterwards, [Senator] Mike

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 I--al l of us--Fred Deming. We were all working. Not just legislative liaison, it was all of us working on this thing. The day of the vote, Mike Mansfield called me and said he wasn't sure he had the votes. So Fowler

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, about a bill relating to the reserves and the fact that he wanted to have a legislative leaders' meeting when he got back. I just can't find--oh yes, we did, on Tuesday. We had a congressional breakfast with the Vice President, [Mike] Mansfield, [Russell

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and sometimes take immediate action . B: Yes, that's right . leadership . And also he had me circulate copies of it to the I would have a copy of my brief and a copy of the Record sent to Senators Mansfield and Russell Long ; subsequently, Ted Kennedy

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with a self-contained mike, just going from room to room to room talking about her thoughts and memories and what had happened in various places. But I think it was to her [Mrs. Johnson] kind of an archaeological study. She wanted to remove one strata

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and his secretary of defense, his various secretaries of state and so forth. And I thought that they would come out of it, that they would come out of it in time. G: I think, in fact, you said in a letter to Senator [Mike] Mansfield that you thought

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that LBJ did too. I had talked with the members of the DSG executive committee. I also had a call from Senator Mansfield, who was then majority leader of the Senate, urging me to accept. Lee Metcalf, urged me to take it. My old DSG mentor, then Senator

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, whoever was the Treasury Secretary, or Joe Barr--and that you want to have Mansfield and Dirksen and Hickenlooper and Fulbright. But don't you realize that these are the people who every country wants to have and out of the last six dinners, they've just

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and for that reason had a difficult time. G: Let's talk a little about politics surrounding this period of time. Both Mayor [Richard] Daley and Mike Mansfield and a number of others cited the possibility of a draft, that even though LBJ would remove himself from

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with letters: "You can't stop people from defending themselves," "You can't stop people from hunting," "It's a sport." G: I think [Mike] Mansfield was one of those who opposed his effort here. B: I can't remember. [inaudible] G: He asked for eleven

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have leadership like Ellender in the Senate, and Mike Mansfield, they are going to decide who will be the conferees. B: Is it generally easier to get an agreement in the small group of the conferees? G: Not always. As I said, it took three weeks

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 then a letter to Senator Mansfield, I believe, and then a reprint of his speech to a foreign policy conference with educators at the State Department in which

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him-you know~ they were referring to the dance, the congo--5enator Russell, Senator Fulbright, Senator [Mike] Mansfield and maybe a couple of others~ and they were all kicking the President in the rear end in do-jng the Congo Senator Russell

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

own and gone to Los Angeles to see the guy she was going with, this actor, George Hamilton, at the time. Anyway, we came back. I remember Mike Mansfield was on there. It's interesting the things that you remember and the things you don't remember

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of conduit between Mr. Johnson and his outstanding critics in Congress--men like Morse and Fulbright and Mansfield? M: I tried a little with Fulbright, but it didn't work much. I had known Fulbright, and had been something of a friend of his, but I think

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

observations from afar as I did not sit in on those conferences. G: What about his relations with Senator [Mike] Mansfield, the Majority Leader? P: I just couldn't comment. I don't think I really had enough knowledge on that one. G: Is there anything else

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, particularly including Mike Mansfield. So, the bill was passed late in the session. If the President had moved relatively promptly with Weaver, he would have run into a lot of flak. If he had moved not immediately and taken some substantial time to think

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

ever done; he exerted a great deal of--I was going to say influence, let me change that--exercised a great deal of power. It was certainly said that after he left the Senate, that the senators elected Mike Mansfield, and one of the reasons

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could tack on some limitations--number of troops and that none of the monies could be used for bombing in the North. It didn't get very far, and there was a Mansfield substitute. But at that point, it's interesting to note, you're talking about January

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to have one man, and Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., was chairman of the finance committee. We set up the campaign. There were various special occasions down here, some of which I recall. I'm not sure I recall all of them. [George] Smathers was here, [Mike] Mansfield

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

extent, through Abe Fortas, and to some extent, perhaps more so, through Wi 11 ard Wirtz and Mike Feldman and Wilbur Cohen. But the main fact was that th.e total array of forces that were not in agreement with me were so overpowering that it really

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

against you, so this will be a useless act. I'm just telling you now." And that was really kind of the end of it. I turned to Mike Monroney, the Senator from Oklahoma, who was there also, and said, IISenator, what do I do?11 you want. And he said

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of time. Haile Selassie was coming down the hall, being escorted by Mike Mansfield, who as majority leader was filling in for the Vice President, and then Johnson spurted into the room where we were waiting, and I started to fade toward the background