Senator Mansfield

Author : Don Oberdorfer
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345149
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senator Mansfield written by Don Oberdorfer and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1317464745
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader written by Francis R. Valeo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780765604507
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader written by Francis Ralph Valeo and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin America and United States Policies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil and United States Policies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foreign Operations Administration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judy Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Mansfield, Democratic Senator from Montana written by Judy Turner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Mansfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin America and United States Policies written by Mike Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Kloss
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art written by William Kloss and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2002 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc C. Johnson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806193433
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mansfield and Dirksen written by Marc C. Johnson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.