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Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Senator Mansfield, I'm pretty sure, had voiced pretty strong opposition to the inclusion of open housing in the belief that it would be impossible to obtain. B: I suppose by this time--had you abandoned the idea, or had you ever considered the idea

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

disagreed with LBJ; the "Johnson treatment;" monthly visits with LBJ and the subjects discussed; the 1965 five-man Senate group world tour led by Senator Mansfield: Aiken, Muskie, Caleb Boggs and Inouye; comments on Vietnam; LBJ's legislative successes

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was for Justice Fortas, declined to put the pressure on the opposing Senators by keeping the Senate in session around the clock. Now in fairness to Senator Mansfield, I don't knOtv whether this was because he didn't think that he had the votes and support

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

occasionally met with Mr. Mansfield, usually on civil rights or related matters. But by and large my work, and the work of my boss, was to work with individual staff members on committees and with the Members or in the House of Representatives. We worked

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the two houses, there would have been no end to it. I've seen a number of instances which I felt that Mansfield and McCormack really didn't push, the way that Rayburn and Johnson would have, well, as they did for Eisenhower. P: There was a great man

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 M: Either your committee chairman or the President? P: None by the President. I accompanied Senator Mansfield on an around

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, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

like this. Mansfield didn't like it, and they had a showdown with him and he retreated. But again I say, he was underused. When I say that, it was no criticism of Kennedy. It was no criticism of Kennedy because the Vice President, as you said

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Marshall Ford Dam, now its called the Mansfield Dam, I think . M: Was that the biggest contract that you'd had up to that point? B : Yes, it was . M: To go back a little bit . Did Alvin Wirtz help you in getting that contract? B: No . No . We

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, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, he frequently was referred to in the press as the devil's advocate)on Viet Nam and other things;and when your hearings were held, I believe Senator {Mikf!l Mansfield asked that you continue that role. Have you continued that role, in your opinion

Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)

they believe I am. But I just v1ant to convince them and be sur2 they believe it, and then I vmu1 d get them soH:e support. This is the way I th-ink you 1 11 run it off. You might want to talk to Mansfield--I've never mentioned it to him--see what he

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Mansfield, Texas, which is near Fort Worth--I grew up going down to Mansfield a lot--about admitting the blacks to the school. And so Allan Shivers was governor and had to face it. And very deliberately, you know, he sent in state force; he sent in one

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

district at that time, while it didn't include Gonzales County--my own county, I was in Joe Mansfield's district--it did include Guadalupe, Comal, and Blanco, as well as Bexar County. Bexar County, of course, together with Nueces--his home county

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, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-advised move? T: I didn't think so at the time, but on reflection I think it was ill-advised, yes. B: Was it Mr. Johnson's idea or T: I've forgotten. Man~field's? I think it was Senator Mansfield's idea. I don't know whether he and the Vice

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

thing You don't want to step on I think he exercised power by the fact that people knew that he was able and knew what was going on and his advice was good on things. But I don't think he interfered with Mansfield's leadership any. M: Did he ever

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, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and But, in general, he used it for his own purposes, I think is the way to put it. It was not a consensus, the way I think Mansfield uses it, or let's say the Republicans use it, other leaders. F: Did you get the feeling then he was looking over his shoulder

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Committee I sit between Bill Fulbright and Wayne Morse. Actually, Mansfield's supposed to sit on my left, but in a great part of the time he's not able to be there--attending to Senate business, and so Morse sits there. I've often said that I was really

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of touch with the Senate critics. The one exception to that I suppose would be Mansfield who continued to see him weekly as a member of the leadership group. M: Were there other forms of retribution taken against the dove group upon the White House

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

weapons used by North Hanoi and North Vietnam to prolong the war--between the time we had the first vote and the time it came back to the House and we had the last vote, the tragedy of Dallas had occurred. I remember very well Majority Leader Mansfield

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- pened as far as Corpus Christi was concerned. That's where Brown and Root got big. G: I guess between that and the dam, Mansfield Dam. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

know, my love is. great for men from.among the.liberal leaders that we had in the Senate. who were good, genuine liberals and moderates: Pastore, Mansfield, Humphrey. I knew Senator Kennedy; didn 1 t get to know him too well. He was ill most

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of NATO troops, Mansfield, and then subsequently the Symington moves to cut very sharply our troops in NATO. The President was determined that this would not happen in his Administration, that he had held NATO together over the de Gaulle episode

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that he certainly didn't intend to block it; and that, as a matter of fact, he had told Senator Mansfield two weeks before that he was no LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Mansfield crisis, and Little Rock where you had the school crisis. You didn t have troubles like that in South Carolina and Mississippi. 1 They had some in Mississippi, of course, but nothing of that magni tude. it. I don't recall anything out

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Senator [William] Langer [R-ND] opposing it. Senator Morse voted for the Southeast Asia Treaty; Senator Mansfield signed the Southeast Asia Treaty along with Mr. Dulles and Senator [H. Alexander] Smith [R-NJ] in Manila when the Southeast Asia Treaty

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

get hold of - - of the substantive committees, that is, Fulbright and Hickenlooper and Mansfield and Aiken, also Humphrey in those days, who was majority whip and also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee - -the Senate Appropriations people

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Mansfield on that, the Intracoastal Canal, all that stuff. But anyhow, the point of it is the man to contact was Roy Miller. Now Dayton Moses--Daddy at first had Dick K1eberg where held name one of us, you see, just like that. Daddy said Lyndon, of course