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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a traditionalist Catholic. G: Could Diem have been sustained, do you think? DG: Certainly he could have. Certainly he could have. If the u.s. view, what I consider the U.S. arrogance, and in this way I agree with old [Mike] Mansfield to a certain extent
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • liaison man; for instance, Larry 0' Brien was the liaison ITlan for Kennedy. Mike Manatos is liaison man for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
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, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that for a minute, I mean not for a minute. Everything that you can lay your hands on, other than a remark thrown off to Senator [Mike] Mansfield, another remark to Kenneth O'Donnell, everything else pointed in the direction of his being prepared to do whatever
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on military strength, he was always a very strong supporter of a strong United States Armed Forces and of strong military alliances, and in fact was one of the chief persons in the Senate at the time there was serious effort led by Senator [Mike] Mansfield--I
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were asked to--I think he even did Mr. [Mike] Mansfield this take majority leader. way in convincing him to As I understand it, Mr. Mansfield did not want that job and the President just appealed that, "You've got to serve your country." How often
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, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (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, 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, 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, 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, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
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
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • would really stop working, in a sense, until they said I could. Well, he took the word back to the President that I was just not going to go on, but a lot of senators were very keen on my staying. I: Yes. R: Mansfield and Fulbright and others like
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Germany defenseless. But the numbers agreed upon--about 35,000--was in the end acceptable to the Germans. stood our problem. They under- We had to make a gesture to those, such as Senator Mansfield, who were demanding even more drastic withdrawals
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the country, certainly the leadership of the Congress. And I'm speaking now of both bodies and of both parties, the Democratic and the Republican. For example, yould always have Senator Mansfield, Senator Dirksen, Senator Dick Russell, Stennis, Margaret
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be a leader as strong as he was in the Senate. M: Did the Senator think there was much of a question about the 1964 election, the national election between Goldwater and Johnson? B: Noo M: In February of 1954, Senator Bartlett backed Mansfield
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ~ Mr. Fulbright; the number two man on the Foreign Relations Committee, which in those days was Senator Hickenlooper--in other words, the senior Democrat and the senior Republican--and then Senator Mansfield as the Majority Leader. He's also on foreign
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on anything for a month or so to try to get the feel of the place and read up on things, but there was one problem I had to plunge in right away, which was the troops in Durope issue. tion calling for the return of the troops. We had Mansfield's resoluThe