Senator Mansfield

Author : Don Oberdorfer
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588345141

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Senator Mansfield by Don Oberdorfer Pdf

A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC—Senator Mike Mansfield. Mike Mansfield's career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its due in this extraordinary biography. In many respects, Mansfield's dignity and decorum represent the high-water mark of the US Senate: he was respected as a leader who helped build consensus on tough issues and was renowned for his ability to work across the aisle and build strong coalitions. Amazingly, he would have breakfast every morning with a member of the opposing party. Mansfield was instrumental in pushing through some of the most influential legislation of the twentieth century. He was at the helm when the Senate passed landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the creation of Medicare, and the nuclear test ban treaty. Mansfield played a crucial role in shaping America's foreign policy, corresponding with JFK about his opposition to the growing presence of the US in Southeast Asia. As ambassador to Japan, his conversations with Cambodia and China paved the way for Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972.

Author : Francis R. Valeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317464747

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Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader by Francis R. Valeo Pdf

The story of Mike Mansfield's influential fifteen-year reign as Senate Majority Leader is colored with some of the most important events of this century: the election of John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy and King assassinations, student and political unrest of the late Sixties, Vietnam, Watergate, the Nixon resignation, and numerous important pieces of legislation from the era, among them the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Valeo, Secretary of the Senate under Mansfield, writes about the Senate and Mansfield's role in national affairs from 1961-76. He argues that Mansfield was instrumental in shaping a more egalitarian kind of Senate than that of the 1950s, when Lyndon B. Johnson was Majority Leader.

Author : Francis Ralph Valeo
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0765604507

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Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader by Francis Ralph Valeo Pdf

This book is about Mike Mansfield and the U.S. Senate during the period that he served as majority leader. For eight consecutive two-year terms, Mansfield's leadership went uncontested. Extending from 1961 through 1976, it began when John F. Kennedy succeeded Dwight D. Eisenhower, continued through the Johnson and Nixon administrations, and ended only with Mansfield's retirement during the presidency of Gerald Ford.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Latin America
ISBN : WISC:89034792648

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Latin America and United States Policies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations,Mike Mansfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Brazil
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053349692

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Brazil and United States Policies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations,Mike Mansfield Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : MINN:31951D03524811Z

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The Foreign Operations Administration by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Mike Mansfield,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Latin America
ISBN : OCLC:663150050

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Latin America and United States Policies by Mike Mansfield,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Mike Mansfield,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : China
ISBN : PURD:32754074672563

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China: a Quarter Century After the Founding of the People's Republic by Mike Mansfield,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Europe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021069021

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Europe After the Geneva Conference by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:858710720

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Latin America and United States Policies. Report of Senator Mike Mansfield on a Study Mission to Latin America. March 29 (legislative Day, March 28), 1962. -- Ordered to be Printed with Illustrations by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Indochina
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026529599

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Indochina by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045326381

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The Rim of Asia, Report of Senator Mike Mansfield to the ... on a Study Mission to the Western Pacific, September 1967 by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Marc C. Johnson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806193427

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Mansfield and Dirksen by Marc C. Johnson Pdf

The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it’s easy to believe it was always this way. But in the turbulent 1960s, even as battles over civil rights and the war in Vietnam dominated American politics, bipartisanship often prevailed. One key reason: two remarkable leaders who remain giants of the Senate—Republican leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, the longest-serving majority leader in Senate history, so revered for his integrity, fairness, and modesty that the late Washington Post reporter David Broder called him “the greatest American I ever met.” The political and personal relationship of these party leaders, extraordinary by today’s standards, is the lens through which Marc C. Johnson examines the Senate in that tumultuous time. Working together, with the Democrat often ceding public leadership to his Republican counterpart, Mansfield and Dirksen passed landmark civil rights and voting rights legislation, created Medicare, and helped bring about a foundational nuclear arms limitation treaty. The two leaders could not have been more different in personality and style: Mansfield, a laconic, soft-spoken, almost shy college history professor, and Dirksen, an aspiring actor known for his flamboyance and sense of humor, dubbed the “Wizard of Ooze” by reporters. Drawing on extensive Senate archives, Johnson explores the congressional careers of these iconic leaders, their intimate relationships with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and their own close professional friendship based on respect, candor, and mutual affection. A study of politics but also an analysis of different approaches to leadership, this is a portrait of a U.S. Senate that no longer exists—one in which two leaders, while exercising partisan political responsibilities, could still come together to pass groundbreaking legislation—and a reminder of what is possible.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053264156

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Viet Nam and Southeast Asia by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Marc C. Johnson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806193434

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Mansfield and Dirksen by Marc C. Johnson Pdf

The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it’s easy to believe it was always this way. But in the turbulent 1960s, even as battles over civil rights and the war in Vietnam dominated American politics, bipartisanship often prevailed. One key reason: two remarkable leaders who remain giants of the Senate—Republican leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, the longest-serving majority leader in Senate history, so revered for his integrity, fairness, and modesty that the late Washington Post reporter David Broder called him “the greatest American I ever met.” The political and personal relationship of these party leaders, extraordinary by today’s standards, is the lens through which Marc C. Johnson examines the Senate in that tumultuous time. Working together, with the Democrat often ceding public leadership to his Republican counterpart, Mansfield and Dirksen passed landmark civil rights and voting rights legislation, created Medicare, and helped bring about a foundational nuclear arms limitation treaty. The two leaders could not have been more different in personality and style: Mansfield, a laconic, soft-spoken, almost shy college history professor, and Dirksen, an aspiring actor known for his flamboyance and sense of humor, dubbed the “Wizard of Ooze” by reporters. Drawing on extensive Senate archives, Johnson explores the congressional careers of these iconic leaders, their intimate relationships with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and their own close professional friendship based on respect, candor, and mutual affection. A study of politics but also an analysis of different approaches to leadership, this is a portrait of a U.S. Senate that no longer exists—one in which two leaders, while exercising partisan political responsibilities, could still come together to pass groundbreaking legislation—and a reminder of what is possible.