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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, 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, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Are you going to run for office? H: No. I toyed with it. F: I'm not trying to put you on the spot. H: I thought of it at one time when Mike Mansfield said he was going to make this his last term. But since then Mike has said that he's not going

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a filibuster, and that stopped us because the Democratic leader Mansfield would not try to break the filibuster. You see, the way you break the filibuster is by meeting around the clock, just keep on meeting, and Mansfield absolutely refused to do

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and stay on it? G: Keep working at it. I liked the way he ran the Senate. I wish frankly that Mansfield would run it the way that Lyndon taught him. F: I sometimes had the feeling that Johnson used to wish, when he was in the White House, that he had