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Telephone conversation # 13619, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:28PM (Item)
  • and ):have the blood of these boys on my conscience. I hope that each of you will support tne in this move so that we will have just one voice in foreign affairs at this very critical time. SERVICE SET I am 10/31/68 7 MANSFIELD: Mr. President: Mike
  • *TRANSCRIPT ONLY OF THIS CONVERSATION; THERE IS NO RECORDING; CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS PARTICIPATING IN CALL ARE LESLIE ARENDS, HALE BOGGS, EVERETT DIRKSEN, THOMAS KUCHEL, JOHN MCCORMACK, MIKE MANSFIELD; JIM JONES IS MEETING WITH LBJ; TIME FROM DAILY
Folder, "[June 11, 1968 - Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • 6/11/68 TO: Marie Fehmer FROM: Barefoot Sanders Resume of Leadership Breakfast, Tuesday, June 11, 1968 'J The Leadership Breakfast today was attended by Senators Mansfield and Byrd, Speaker McCormack, Congressmen Albert and Boggs
Folder, "January 23, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Democratic Congressional Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • Mike Mansfield The Vice President Senator Russell Long Congressman Albert Mike Manatos x1.;r;o; MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON CQ~TFIDEU'fIAL January 23, 196 8 4:30 p. m. FOR THE PRESIDENT !"jf\t\. FROM: Tom Johnson Attached
Folder, "August 16, 1967 - 2:10 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Rostow, Christian," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • . ~ The President: Read letter from Mike Mansfield on the mishandling of the Senate vote on Arms Sales. Secretary McNamara: Said that he agreed that the vote had been badly mishandled. "We just failed on it, Mr. President. 11 The President: We have to do a better
Folder, "[May 7, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Meeting with Congressional Leaders]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • THE MEETING WERE: The President The Vice President Speaker McCormack Senator Mansfield Senator Long Senator Byrd Congressman Albert Congressman Boggs Budget Director Charles Zwick Mike Manatos Barefoot Sanders Joe Califano · George Christian ~ Senator Byrd
Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 5:36 p.m. Democratic Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Those attending were: The President Congressman Carl Albert The Vice President Congressman John Moss Senator Mansfield Postmaster General O'Brien Speaker McCormack Barefoot Sanders Senator Byrd of West Virginia Joe Califano Senator Long Mike Manatos
Folder, "January 30, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Pueblo 10 - Congressional Leadership Breakfast," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • Senator Mike Mansfield Senator Russell Long Senator J. W. Fulbright Senator John Sparkman Senator Robert Byrd Congressman Thomas Morgan Secretary Rusk Secretary McNamara General Earle Wheeler General George Brown Honorable Lawrence O'Brien Walt Rostow
Folder, "July 16, 1967 - 2:15 p.m. Bipartisan Congressional leaders and Ranking Minority members of committees," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • JULY 16, 1967 - 2:15 p.m. ---SI BIPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS AND RANKING MINORITY MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES Sec. McNamara Sec. Wirtz Sec. Boyd Attar. Gen. Clark Senator Mansfield Senator Long Senator Russell Senator Byrd ~. Sen. Morse Sen
Folder, "[September 5, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • the State Department lobbying for the AID Bill. The President said no. He said he talked to Mike Mansfield. Apparently, the problem was that State Department had put some people in an office near the Senate floor and neither Mansfield nor Mike Manatos
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
Folder, "[March 26, 1968 - 3:15 p.m. Meeting with Special Advisory Group, Cabinet Room (added to Meeting Notes File on 4-6-82)]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • _ ----- ---·-­ ' ·1 I ~ ; ' .l I t ·­ ~ f;.."M(',iiERlE.D .JO HANDWRITING f!U ·. -·-- _: ___________ . ' MIKE MANSFIELD MONTANA %tfuh ~fates ~emtfe ®ffue nf t4e ~oriflz 1fitnller .asipngton, ,!Ult March l3, 1968 SlJlSJ!X:T: Reports ot requeata tor
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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/22/1968 (Friday) (Item)
  • Office work; Lady Bird has hair styled; photos made for article; Lady Bird to lunch with 75th Club at Senate; ladies reminisce about early years; assessment of Mike Mansfield; Senators greet ladies; Lady Bird & Walter Washington tour Washington, DC
Folder, "[November 7, 1968 Foreign Policy Meeting - Family Dining Room]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • . ... __ ..,._._ --· ··­ .. . :-· . :· :.,,.. 8j_ SUMMARY OF STATEMENTS BY CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS, OCTOBER 31, 1968 MIKE MANSFIELD: I am 100% for it. SPEAKER McCORMACK: I'm with you. SENATOR KUCHEL~ I'm all the way with you. REPRESENTATIVE HALE BOGGS: I'm for you. SENATOR DIRKSEN: You know
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
Folder, "[Briefing Papers for Congressional Leadership Meeting, August 23, 1968]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • as such - ­ the Russian variety at least - - does not appeal to the Czechs." Fulbright has offered no advice on U.S. course of action. "It's too new." Senator Mike Mansfield "There is nothing that the U.S. can do. Our over-involvement in Viet­ nam would prevent us
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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/4/1966 (Friday) (Item)
  • several former White House staff and Roosevelt family and friends at party; Lady Bird talks with Roy White about renovations at the LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird mentions LBJ's weight; Mike Mansfield report on Vietnam
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