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Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . . And he did. The Majority Leader can get his own whip if he really wants to. Now, [Mike] Mansfield never would. He just didn't take any sides. But I don't think it's any--at least it hasn't been in the past--that there has been a difference between
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/2/1964 (Item)
  • photographers Then t o upstairs bedroo m fo r a nap Page 3 Thursday WH July 2 , 1964 Those present at General Taylor's swearing-in as Ambassador to Viet-Nam Senators: Stuart Symington - Mo. Congressmen: Edward Long - Mo. Thomas E. Morgan - Pa. Mike Mansfield
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/26/1966 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Ranch guests include Senators Mike Mansfield & Everett Dirksen and Congressman George Mahon; guests leave; Lady Bird goes to Johnson City to LBJ's Boyhood Home for restoration meeting; lunch; LBJ gives Lady Bird and Luci robes from Korea; Lady Bird
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/7/1966 (Friday) (Item)
  • LBJ meets with Speaker McCormack and Sen. Mike Mansfield; Lady Bird works on upcoming social events; Lady Bird lunches with Luci Johnson and swims in pool; LBJ asks Kenneth Galbraith to head the Peace Corps; Lady Bird to hair salon; Arthur Krim
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/17/1967 (Item)
  • gist toDT |_ George t . i I Francis memo ; Robert Christian ^_ | Joe ;__ Mike i t -.,.., . , Bato r Kintner — „___ Califano Manatos _____«__ ..I., -j i i I. -i I . .- . n.i. . . i i —«—«—1»— ' THE WHITE House Date May 17, 1967
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/8/1967 (Item)
  • the President and Sen Mike Mansfield at 4:00p the president's current views on the situation in th e Middle East. ATTENDANCE - SIT RM mtg - tonight: Secy Rusk McNamara Secy Fowler | Hon. Nicholas Katzenbach, Under Secy of State Gen Earle G Wheeler. Chairman, JCS
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/22/1967 (Item)
  • _J Thursday Day Mike Ashton Walt Mansfield Rostow _____ __ '> i*. 7: 38p t Secy 7:47p f | / 7:52p t j ,| j, .—. I I\ I Hon. M ; • Walt Rostow" "" ,'••-•• 8:00p [__£ '_ j ~ Secy 4__ , J Mrs. 1j ^7:53p I L 8:00p 10:40p
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/25/1967 (Item)
  • The President began his day at (Place ) The Entrv Tune ^' : 1 -p- Telephone fort Activity In Out Expend,- Lo 10:50a f C-^ 10:55a f (L~ 11:00a t -11:11a t White House Day (include visited by) ture Code LD Wednesday Bob Fleming Senator Mike
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/23/1966 (Item)
  • Hate October Lennons Hotel, Brisbane, Australia. Dav Acnvity (inctudr vtsited by) Henry Wilson - Wash, D. C. (als Cong. Arends Cong. Hale Boggs o talked w/) Sen. Mike Mansfield - Wash, D. C. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien - Wash, D. C. 23, 1966
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the same time we had 14(b) on the floor of the Senate. And ultimately, although I see here [that] between the President and his immediate staff, we called sixty-one senators on 14(b), we could not break a filibuster. And [Mike] Mansfield finally in late
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • against Senator [Mike] Mansfield and of course Senator Sl,mington and others. He felt that by reason of having been in the House and so on, that I for some reason could __be very helpful in representing the Democrats in a way in which the excesses
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/17/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • with Charles Engelhards and Mike Mansfields; Engelhards' donation of furniture to White House; Committee on Fine Arts
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and with Mike Mansfield, who was still hanging on when I was in the White House, I forget, to some town in Montana [with] a big air force base. But the only one in which somebody came along and made a pretty damned good case that we'd made a mistake
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the House and kept the members in. G: But in the Senate you didn't have even the support of the--? O: On the Senate side, Mike Mansfield was not enthusiastic. Neither was [John] Pastore, who was chairman of the committee. Beyond that, [Everett] Dirksen
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, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [?] and other Forest Service-Job Corps and I think [Mike] Mansfield got in on L W J X \ V developed an agreement. Mansfield got it out of Sarge someway, or one of Sarge's successors, that selected input. word. We weren't going to take the worst ones
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Mills and Mike Mansfield I guess Mike Mansfield had come from Washington. And let's see, who else was there--! guess that was it except for Jim Jones and Joe Califano. Anyway, we gathered in the guest house, and we went through the whole program. Joe
Folder, "Western Trip - Montana, Wyoming & Utah [4 of 4]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 10 (Item)
  • ~--nc,. Leader, Mike Mansfield ' in the Senate /\John McCormack in the House have predicted Conireaa will servation iO do-.n in le1islative have roried yet devised ini history the 88th ■aj•r liii ■ lation, •t the most effective
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 18, January 1 - 14, 1967 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 12 [1 of 2] (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Subversive Activities Control Board, and Mike Mansfield loved John Mahan. The issue that was coming up was the appropriations and authorization to continue the board. And there was also a vacancy on the board at that point. I think one of the fellows had
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 1, Nov. 1963 - Feb. 1964 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • IJieaher ~aslyhtgiott, ;i)..QJ:. · J anua.ry TO The President FROM Mike Mansfield 6, 1964 SUBJECT: · Viet Namese Situation. This memo is responsive to your telephone request during Christmas week to Frank Valeo. I have discussed thd request
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 86, December 2005," LBJ Library (Item)
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, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Yes. I can tell you ab~ut a night I had dinner with Mike Feldman, in February of 1960, when Mike and I put the ticket together and only he was right. . B: S: Mr. Feldman was working then for ... . Senator Kennedy. And he was, of course
Folder, "Boggs, Hale (Cong.) 11/1/1963 - 12/31/1964," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-330 (Item)
Folder, "Diary: Vol. #9, 3/31 – 10/19/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 12 (Item)
  • just kind of numb now. I slept poorly last night, got up quite early, had to drive to Chicago to get in here, didn't get home until about 3:00, tried to nap with little auccess, worked around the yard a while, dinner with Mike, then the President
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had forgotten until now-after a great many taks with Mike Mansfield, who I think was more ir.tere3ted in Vietnam in those doys than anyone in the Senate. IT~ny He would go to Vietnam as part of a Senate task force and would come back and make very
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • , and Mike Mansfield, the majority leader, came in and he said, "George, would you take over for Teddy? We've got some bad news there." I said, "Well, sure." As I remember it, as soon as I took the seat and Mansfield had told Teddy what had happened, he moved
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Johnson -- XXXIII -- 9 there and stayed two months, I think. The senators that Lyndon was working with mostly in those days were Senator [Walter] George of course, and [Mike] Mansfield, and [Stuart] Symington, and Dick Russell, Clements
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --an array of option papers were going over to Bundy. Now that I look at this I see that also even in June [Mike] Mansfield, even in June Mansfield obviously sensed that the President didn't know what he wanted to do and was resisting pressure to go. My
Folder, "Foreign Relations - Berlin [3 of 3]," 1961 Subject Files, VP Papers, Box 79 (Item)
  • of 2] ED R. CRISSEY 1511 BRYAN STREET DALLAS 1, TEXAS' JUNE 16, 1961 THE HONORABLE LYNDON B. JOHNSON . . VI CE-PRES I DENT OF THE UN I TED STA TES .WASHINGTON 25, D.C. DEAR VICE-PRESIDENT JOHNSON! I NOTE THAT SENATOR MIKE MANSFIELD HAS MADE
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 7, June 21-30, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 8 (Item)
  • unhappiness that t'he special treatment for the DR might cause among the other Latin Americans . and with Senator Mansfield. I recommend that you sign the memorandum to the Secretary of Agriculture (Tab A). W. W. Rostow Attachments DEPARTMENT
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that point without tearing the Democratic Party to pieces, and no conservative could have stepped into it at that point. Most of the other people that might be able to keep some semblance, say somebody like Mike Mansfield, simply did not have enough weight
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [it] with the leader. This would be, in the case of the House, we'd go to see the speaker, and then we'd go to see the majority leader over in the Senate and probably pay a call on Senator [Mike] Mansfield. These were strictly ceremonial, strictly courtesy calls
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, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was correct in that. I might have slowed it up just a little bit more myself, but again in April 1965 just before the Easter recess, he sent Larry O'Brien up on the Hill. And I met Larry O'Brien in [Majority Leader Mike] Mansfield's office right outside