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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the vote. Apparently, [Everett] Dirksen had backed out after indicating his support of the measure. O: Mike's memo reflects the nature of the problem when he and [Nicholas] Katzenbach and Barefoot Sanders were in [Mike] Mansfield's office. That was just
  • A rush to get senators back to Washington D.C. to support a reorganization plan that transferred the Community Relations Service from the Commerce Department to the Justice Department; Mike Mansfield's reluctance to be aggressive in seeking support
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Engelhard was still living and President Johnson and Senator [Mike] Mansfield were here. E: As I recall, the President was no longer president. G: That's right. This was February, 1971. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org E: ORAL
  • Visit to Mrs. Johnson and President Johnson at the White House; Andre Meyer; LBJ’s attitude toward Catholicism; Mike Mansfield; bombing of the Capitol.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • might just as well forget any kind of rapport with his colleagues in the future, and he better not look for any from the other side of the aisle, because nobody's going to trust him after that. That is unforgivable. G: Mike Mansfield was chosen
  • Senate activities and LBJ, 1957; Mike Mansfield; Mideast Resolution; Texas political problems; LBJ and labor; activities and KTBC; Bill Brammer
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I want to ask you about in connection with the [Mike] Mansfield memo and that was a statement by General [Nguyen Cao] Ky that the U.S. should do the fighting on the perimeter where the South Vietnamese army would fight or do more organizing in rear
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mansfield's leadership style contrast with LBJ's? C: The style was far different from LBJ's. I don't know whether by design or otherwise but Mike Mansfield was much more a laid back, trying-to-be-honest sort of guy with all of his colleagues, and, in my
  • president; LBJ's relationship with the Senate during his vice presidency and presidency; comparing LBJ and Mike Mansfield as leaders; judicial appointments of the Kennedy administration, including Luther Terry as surgeon general; cigarette warning labels
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you all count? The way I did it, I worked very closely with the leadership, with Senator [Mike] Mansfield, and Senator [Everett] Dirksen, and Bobby Baker, who was at the time secretary of the Senate Majority. Larry had a policy that I think
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  • Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forgotten what it was, it wasn't Gary, it was one of the big towns in Indiana--"but only on the condition that I not tell the press or the politicians." [inaudible] He was a hard fellow to work for. G: Did his relationship with Senator [Mike] Mansfield
  • Plans for the 1968 campaign; working with LBJ; disagreement during 1960 campaign; 1964 campaign involvement; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; LBJ and the Democratic Party; LBJ and RFK; LBJ’s withdrawal; Theodore White; LBJ and HHH during the 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the oil and gas industry. He could still help them, but he would do so off that committee. That would be my guess. I don't know. G: How about the naming of [Mike] Mansfield as whip? I guess Mansfield was elected; I assume it's an elective office. M
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Semer -- I -- 19 decides what's S 1. And I had talked to Mike Mansfield, who said they would hold the S 1 number, because the logic
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Senate with Mike Mansfield, Russell was not a key factor. I mean the contact with Russell directly in all of the promotion of our program was limited. G: Was the Vice President used for his long associations with some of these southern committee
  • in working with the Senate; Mike Mansfield's personality; an evening at LBJ's home, The Elms with LBJ, Bobby Baker, Jack Brooks, and their wives; Frank Valeo's role as bridge between Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's office and the White House congressional
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XVIII -- 7 G: Any insights on other potential successors to Stevenson? [Mike] Mansfield, [William] Scranton and [Eugene] McCarthy were all mentioned as possibilities. C: Well, Mansfield was, by this time
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be calculated to make you lean in one direction or the othe~ but Bob had no following in the Senate as far as votes on issues were concerned. He worked for someone; he worked for Lyndon, and later on he worked for Mike Mansfield. Part of his downfall came
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on this thing, "We are in a war and although all of you know my position on that war, I will not be a part of anything which weakens the morale of our men over there. We must live up to what I consider to be a matter of trust." [Mike] Mansfield said that they'd
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and then, I noticed from my diary, and I do remember Alan Boyd was a little chilly at that signing ceremony. Then we take [Mike] Mansfield and we went over to the East Room and I don't know whether that was a ceremony. I can't figure it out from these diaries
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't want these Republicans to just scuttle it. That's what they're out to do, and we've got to have somebody on there that can protect our interests and somebody that knows what the score is, so to speak." Well, Mike Mansfield had been a history
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with in the final analysis, as we headed toward Los Angeles, were Catholic pros. David Lawrence was governor of Pennsylvania; Mike DiSalle was governor of Ohio; Dick Daley was the kingpin, of course, in Chicago and, therefore, Illinois. In each instance
  • ; exchanging appointments for political support; closing military installations and Veteran Administration hospitals, including a hospital in Mike Mansfield's state; the power that members of Congress have that the president does not; House Judiciary Committee
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to say that he shouldn't recommend the surtax. I was at that breakfast. And he went around the table and he asked everybody and they all said, "Don't recommend it." [Mike] Mansfield, [John] McCormack, [Thomas Hale] Boggs, whoever. It came to Teddy, who
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: SENATOR A. S. (MIKE) MONRONEY INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY More on LBJ Library oral
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  • Monroney, A. S. Mike (Almer Stillwell Mike), 1902-1980
  • Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you think part of Mike Mansfield's--I presume we're agreed on this--mediocre record as senate majority leader was just the fact that it would have happened to any senate majority leader after the strong leadership that Johnson had exerted
  • ; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JAKE JACOBSEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jacobsen's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you about the incident in which Representative Gerald Ford released a letter from Mike Mansfield
  • LBJ's opinion of Gerald Ford; Ford's public release of a letter from Mike Mansfield to LBJ expressing opposition to LBJ's decision-making in Vietnam; LBJ's response to criticism of Vietnam decisions; LBJ's determination to win in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • program. I think probably the best example was the loyal support of Mike Mansfield for the program, and the conflict we got into with Mike Mansfield over the closing of veterans hospitals. Johnson became very disturbed with this. Those hospitals were going
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or debate actually in progress in Mike Mansfield's back room or in the Speaker's office. You just carry on negotiations. There were moments, but they would be rare. Normally, when you did that, if it were in Mansfield's office or in the Speaker's office
  • in the 1980s; encouraging Democratic civil-rights-supporting members of Congress to organize and become more actively involved in the passage of related legislation; the civil rights views of southern members of Congress; Everett Dirksen's and Mike Mansfield's
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • inclined.Senator [Mike] Mansfield [D.-Mont.] is not so inclined and Johnson was. Frequently he would either inspire some other Senator to get up and take a crack at an Eisenhower or a Republican administration policy; then he would get up and with an expression
  • acceptance of the Vice Presidency; John Williams of Delaware; Mike Mansfield; LBJ’s visit to Senate Democratic cloakroom as VP; VP years; LBJ’s relationship with RFK; Bobby Baker; JFK assassination; Jim Rowe; LBJ’s interests; change in LBJ’s attitude
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was inclined to overcomplicate things oftentimes when he could have played it pretty just straight and let it happen, sort of the way [Mike] Mansfield did. Lyndon was inclined to--I think sometimes he would make a complicated issue [simple]. He'd sort
  • finances; LBJ attending caucuses of the Democratic senators; the unemployment special committee; migrant labor; LBJ using committee assignments to his advantage; LBJ's power of persuasion; LBJ compared to Mike Mansfield as Senate Majority Leader; Hubert
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , there were enough special exceptions where individuals like Hubert Humphrey and Mike Mansfield, both of whom were junior to me on the Appropriations Committee, were put on Appropriations in order to get on Foreign Relations. So there was something
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • discussed this with Mike Mansfield-- but I've been told that Mike said that he would give the job when he was Whip and the opening came when Johnson became Vice President, that he asked Russell if he wouldn't take over the leadership. Russell didn't want
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wrote a long memo before he made Mike Mansfield his whip, urging that he do that. I'd worked with Mansfield a good deal on matters. And when he made him the whip, I thought Johnson was going to come around and say, "What a great memo." But he never said
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The tidelands was a big issue because-- H: It was a big issue. And in 1952 after Eisenhower had been elected, Johnson called me and said that he wanted me to go on the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mike Mansfield had been elected, as I recall, out in Montana
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • O'Donnell and Mike [Myer] Feldman, and that is that they were just living out the 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • for not running; early campaign planning; Jess Unruh; Robert Kennedy entering the presidential race; Larry O’Brien; Mike Mansfield; Oliver Quayle’s work on the polls; reading the 3/31/1968 speech before it was given; Krim’s arguments against LBJ’s withdrawal from
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [with] the airlines at eighty-five million, Siemiller and the union at 115 million. That we have the Morse resolution and [Mike] Mansfield says the Morse bill is going to pass. And we talk about the strategy on the Morse bill and I explain that we've got to get
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the Senate. The [Mike] Mansfield-[Hubert] Humphrey situation had worked out extremely well, along with George Smathers, so we were quite comfortable, and if there was any adjustment after Rayburn, it probably would have been solely the open-door access
  • Petersen to support the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; Mike Mansfield's request that Petersen and his staff use more discretion in their dealings with senators; Wilbur Mills' importance and efforts to keep him up to date; O'Brien's work with Orville Freeman
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . A call came from Senator Mike Mansfield, the majority leader in the Senate, saying that one of the senators had introduced an amendment to the Medicare Bill, which he thought would cripple it so badly that we could never get enough money to cover
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XIII -~ 12 Now that surrmer LBJ was away a good deal and [Mike] Mansfield was acting as leader. Did this give Mansfield the chance to develop leadership abilities? R: Not particularly. I don't think he
  • 1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Speeches and things like that. C: Yes, for people to deliver on the floor, and here's Manatos, knowing that the President would be looking for those speeches the next day, covering himself by saying, "I went up to see Senator [Mike] Mansfield about
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the election--was [Senator Mike] Mansfield's base. But everything, he viewed everything as something to use. I just think--it's not related to this but while I think of it, [Nicholas] Katzenbach came by to see me one day to tell me that he was about to let
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as they possibly can. They let the president pro tem do it, or whoever the president pro tem--but Johnson's proposal to chair the caucus--my God! That just horrified them. G: Well, now, as I understand it, the motion was offered by [Mike] Mansfield
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president's wife or the president's? T: No, just when he was majority leader. F: Did you retire then in 1961 or did you take another position? T: No, I stayed up on the Hill with Senator Mansfield. F: With the Policy Committee? T: Yes. F: Did you
  • FDR’s death and coming to work for LBJ in 1955; Democratic Policy committee procedures and how members were chosen; comparison of how the Policy Committee ran under Senator Johnson and then Senator Mansfield; LBJ’s work on civil rights legislation
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, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at Bryan, Texas, after he was V i c e President, he was working into a neck mike and neck mike was too low and it wasn't picking up and I was in the back of the hall and I kept holding my hand up to my ear to catch his attention and it did, and after