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  • 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
  • previous Vice Presidents. I certainly didn't see it. But I didn't think that Johnson was really carrying or working on the Kennedy program up here after those early days--you know, at first when he just stepped out of the Senate and Mansfield took over
  • GOSSETT -- I -- 5 chairmanships than any other delegation. Mr. Hatton Sumners was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee; Mr. Fritz Lanham was chairman of the House Commiittee on Public Buildings and Grounds; Mr. [Joseph] Mansfield was chairman
  • in the delegation. When I came to Congress, the delegations was much more conservative, as that word· is generally understood, than it is today, for example. There were many senior members, such as Fritz Lanham, Hatton Sumners, Milton West, Mr. [Joseph] Mansfield