DOCSLIB.ORG

Oral History Interview with Mike Mansfield, September 9, 1999

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Oral History Interview with Mike Mansfield, September 9, 1999 Archives and Special Collections Mansfield Library, University of Montana Missoula MT 59812-9936 Email: [email protected] Telephone: (406) 243-2053 This transcript represents the nearly verbatim record of an unrehearsed interview. Please bear in mind that you are reading the spoken word rather than the written word. Oral History Number: 391-010 Interviewee: Mike Mansfield Interviewer: Don Oberdorfer Date of Interview: September 9,1999 Project: Don Oberdorfer Interviews with Mike Mansfield Oral History Project Don Oberdorfer's notes prior to recorded interview of September 9,1999 Made me coffee automatically when I came in. Didn't look good - very thin and pale. Seemed to say (if I understood correctly) he had been having trouble regaining weight after his operation. Mind as good as ever. Wearing a red (crimson?) US Marine Corps tie, with the Marine emblem, and Marine tie clasp. A lightly checked shirt. This tim e a belt rather than suspenders. Says he hasn't given up smoking his pipe, and still had a can of Prince Albert on his desk, but I haven't seen him smoke it for months. Sits on the soft in his office, sometimes with his arms folded across his chest, hands on the opposite upper arm, in a posture that was often seen when he was majority leader. His legs often crossed in a relaxed way. Clearly he is comfortable with me. Sophie Engelhard Craighead told me last night that Mansfield had called her himself to warn her of my call, and that he seemed quite interested in the project. I told him I had been in touch with her - "great girl, Sophie" he said. As I left the office, he called out behind me, "Tap 'er light" 1 Mike Mansfield Interview, OH 391-010, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. The following is the recorded interview with Mike Mansfield Mike Mansfield: Drove home every summer with Anne. I stayed here. Don Oberdorfer: Drove all the way across the country. M M: Three thousand miles. DO: Probably took three or four days. MM: Went through Pittsburgh, then. You couldn't go around it. Went through Chicago then, you couldn't go around it. Five days, 3,000 miles. God. Hard to believe. DO: And when she got home, she would probably do a little campaigning for you or something like that. M M: Oh she did. She got me into politics. DO: Well, I'm happy to tell you I'm making good progress. Yesterday I finished the first draft of the proposal that I'm sending up to New York to my literary agent for this book. M M: You didn't make it before Labor Day then? DO: No, I tried. Came close. Came close. But, this is 58 pages long, single spaced, 14-point type and then she will then circulate that to some publishers in New York and I'm sure before the fall is out I'll have a publisher who sounds like he's going to do a good job with the book and I'll go further. In the meantime, I talked to Sophie Engelhard Craighead out there in— MM: Wyoming. DO: In Wyoming, yes. And she's going to help me. She'll be—I don't know, sometime in the next few months—she'll be in Washington. She doesn't know when exactly, but we will get together. MM: Great girl, Sophie. DO: Yes. She was nice and she told me that you called you. That was awfully nice of you to do that. So, I'm coming along and in the process of putting my thoughts down for this outline I came across a number of things—questions—that I had which came out of these documents that I was looking at and so forth. So that's what I wanted to ask you about. One of them is, you wrote a letter to some woman in Connecticut about your parents and this is written in 1986. You said, "M y father was a construction worker in New York until he broke his leg, and then became a hotel porter." I was trying to pin this down with what happened first, whether he had this fall. 2 Mike Mansfield Interview, OH 391-010, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. M M: What lady in Connecticut? DO: Here's the letter. MM: I don't even remember the letter. That's what I had heard. I haven't said it much because I only knew him as a hotel porter. DO: But I do know that he had a fall in a construction site. M M: He had a game leg. I have heard, I don't know where, that he had fallen from a roof. But didn't know it. I didn't remember it. But I do remember him as a hotel porter. DO: Right. Yes. Okay. MM: So I just know he was a hotel porter. I also heard he was a bartender, but I don't know. DO: Here's another one. This I keep coming across and I don't know if there is any truth to this or how it got started: "Mansfield also spent six weeks on Pacific island, across the bay from Vladivostok." [during the period after the A.E.F. was withdrawn from Siberia.]* M M: No. That was a lie. DO: I didn't think it was true, but it keeps recurring. I guess once it gets into these papers it just keeps coming up. M M: No, I think I said that once, but it was a lie. DO: Somebody wrote that "with Maureen's encouragement, Mansfield considered running for office as early as 1936. In 1937 he became active in the University's Teachers Union," etc. etc. MM: That's correct, but at that time I wasn't considering running for office, I was becoming more interested in politics because of my wife's interest in politics. About 1938 I really began to get interested and we began to do a little figuring. It seems to me that I was considering it first. I met a fellow called Pete Meloney [Meloy], I think he's still alive in Helena, an attorney; he's about 82 or 83. M-E-L-O-N-E-Y. [He mean Meloy.] He was a student, a law student. We got to be kind of friendly, politically speaking, and personally. We discussed running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Congress. I'm not sure, but I think Pete was interested in State Office of Public Instruction, and I was more so in Congress. We talked about it, that was about '38. When I say we, I mean me and Maureen. We ruled out State Superintendent of Public Instruction and thought about Congress. Pete, I think, became a State Senator from Helena. He was from Broadwater, or Thompson, towns in Broadwater County. Got to be a judge 3 Mike Mansfield Interview, OH 391-010, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. in Helena. I had a letter from Pete, oh, several years ago, in which he told me he was in the 80s and retiring. DO: He was living in Helena you think probably? M M: Lived in Helena and I'm sure he would be in the phone book. DO: Yes. I'll have to call him. Good. Now, here is one that may come as a surprise to you. When you set pesky reporters down the trail to trying to find out things, they do a little research. You had thought that you and [Senator] Elbert Thomas (were) called in by Truman to discuss the Japanese surrender. MM: Not together. DO: Yes, but I think the story is a little different. In August 10th, 1945, you went to see President Truman. Here are his notes on the meeting. [Shows him the notes. Long pause.] MM: Sounds okay. DO: The subject was, of course, as he said, your desire to make another trip to China. But that happened to be the day that the White House heard the news that the Japanese wanted to surrender. That particular day. MM: Wouldn't know, but I wouldn't be surprised. DO: But, I do know. And I think that you and he may have discussed this because you talked to an Associated Press reporter—maybe at the White House, or maybe back at the capitol, I'm not sure—but the AP ran the following story, little story: "Washington, August 10th, Congressman Mansfield said after a White House meeting that President Truman was determined that Japanese surrender must include the outright capitulation of the Kwangtung army in Manchuria and all other forces." MM: Sounds right. DO: So clearly you and he had some discussion about the terms of the surrender in China. MM: I wouldn't disagree with that, but I couldn't give you any details. DO: Then, about eight days later, you and Senator Thomas appeared on an NBC television program together to discuss the subject of Japan after the surrender. And there there was discussion about what to do about the Emperor. Okay, by that time the surrender terms had been agreed to, announced, and the question was, is it all right for the Emperor to remain. Thomas did see Truman that same month, however it was in company with a number of 4 Mike Mansfield Interview, OH 391-010, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. medical experts, the purpose was to discuss the expiration of something of the Nurse Training Act.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Majority and Minority Leaders”, Available At
    Majority and Minority Party Membership Other Resources Adapted from: “Majority and Minority Leaders”, www.senate.gov Available at: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Majority_Minority_Leaders.htm Majority and Minority Leaders Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Majority and Minority Leaders Chapter 3: Majority and Minority Whips (Assistant Floor Leaders) Chapter 4: Complete List of Majority and Minority Leaders Chapter 5: Longest-Serving Party Leaders Introduction The positions of party floor leader are not included in the Constitution but developed gradually in the 20th century. The first floor leaders were formally designated in 1920 (Democrats) and 1925 (Republicans). The Senate Republican and Democratic floor leaders are elected by the members of their party in the Senate at the beginning of each Congress. Depending on which party is in power, one serves as majority leader and the other as minority leader. The leaders serve as spokespersons for their parties' positions on issues. The majority leader schedules the daily legislative program and fashions the unanimous consent agreements that govern the time for debate. The majority leader has the right to be called upon first if several senators are seeking recognition by the presiding officer, which enables him to offer motions or amendments before any other senator. Majority and Minority Leaders Elected at the beginning of each Congress by members of their respective party conferences to represent them on the Senate floor, the majority and minority leaders serve as spokesmen for their parties' positions on the issues. The majority leader has also come to speak for the Senate as an institution. Working with the committee chairs and ranking members, the majority leader schedules business on the floor by calling bills from the calendar and keeps members of his party advised about the daily legislative program.
    [Show full text]
  • FR: Kerry *Attachee\ Is Agenda and Draft Talking Points for Tonight's Freedom Forum Ninner. Chle Have Both Been Asked to Give 3
    This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu 5 !LS. TO: Senato~ Dole FR: Kerry *Attachee\_ is agenda and draft talking points for tonight's Freedom Forum Ninner. chle have both been asked to give 3 - 5 minutes of remarks at concl sion of dinner. *The Freedom Forum is part of a $700 million endowment established by the Gannett oragnization. It funds programs which explains the role of the media in our society ... Progams include a Media Studies Center at Columbia University and a First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. *In 1997 the Forum also plan on opening a "World Center" in Arlington which will include a "Newseum"--a museum highlighting the history of newspapers and the free press. At the dinner, Mr. Neuharth will also announce a new yearlong study of Congress and the media. Page 1 of 26 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas http://dolearchives.ku.edu PAGE 1 FILE No . 677 01/05 '95 15:17 ID: SENT 6Y:Xerox Telecopier 7020 ; 1- 5-85 2: 10 PM ; 7035224882-+ :# 2 .... WOIUCJNG AGENDA Salute co tbe 'United State1 Senate and ttl New Le.aderahip January 5, 1995 7:4' Dinner Chimes/Guesta called t:o be seated 8:00 Invoca.tion Dr. RiohArd C. H&lvel"filon. Senate Chaplain 8:02 Charloa L. Overby· Welcome and Introduction of Fonner Senate Majority Leader and Master of Ceremonies Howard H. Baker Jr, (3 min.) 8:0S Howard H. Baker Jr. - hliToduetory Remarks and Jntrodu.ction of Cb.airman of The Freedom Forum Allen H, Ncuharth (5 min.) 8: 10 All= H.
    [Show full text]
  • CHAIRMEN of SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES [Table 5-3] 1789–Present
    CHAIRMEN OF SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES [Table 5-3] 1789–present INTRODUCTION The following is a list of chairmen of all standing Senate committees, as well as the chairmen of select and joint committees that were precursors to Senate committees. (Other special and select committees of the twentieth century appear in Table 5-4.) Current standing committees are highlighted in yellow. The names of chairmen were taken from the Congressional Directory from 1816–1991. Four standing committees were founded before 1816. They were the Joint Committee on ENROLLED BILLS (established 1789), the joint Committee on the LIBRARY (established 1806), the Committee to AUDIT AND CONTROL THE CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE (established 1807), and the Committee on ENGROSSED BILLS (established 1810). The names of the chairmen of these committees for the years before 1816 were taken from the Annals of Congress. This list also enumerates the dates of establishment and termination of each committee. These dates were taken from Walter Stubbs, Congressional Committees, 1789–1982: A Checklist (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985). There were eleven committees for which the dates of existence listed in Congressional Committees, 1789–1982 did not match the dates the committees were listed in the Congressional Directory. The committees are: ENGROSSED BILLS, ENROLLED BILLS, EXAMINE THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, Joint Committee on the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, LIBRARY, PENSIONS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, RETRENCHMENT, REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS, ROADS AND CANALS, and the Select Committee to Revise the RULES of the Senate. For these committees, the dates are listed according to Congressional Committees, 1789– 1982, with a note next to the dates detailing the discrepancy.
    [Show full text]
  • 990308STS Sm1.Wpd MINUTES
    MINUTES MONTANA SENATE 56th LEGISLATURE - REGULAR SESSION COMMITTEE ON STATE ADMINISTRATION Call to Order: By CHAIRMAN MACK COLE, on March 8, 1999 at 10:00 A.M., in Room 325 Capitol. ROLL CALL Members Present: Sen. Mack Cole, Chairman (R) Sen. Don Hargrove, Vice Chairman (R) Sen. Jon Tester (D) Sen. Jack Wells (R) Members Excused: Sen. Bill Wilson (D) Members Absent: None. Representatives Present: Rep. Matt Brainard, Chairman (R) Rep. Allan Walters, Vice Chairman, Majority (R) Rep. Toni Hagener, Vice Chairman Minority (D) Rep. Darrel Adams (R) Rep. Joan Andersen (R) Rep. Edith Clark (R) Rep. Tom Dell (D) Rep. George Golie (D) Rep. Don Hedges (R) Rep. Monica Lindeen (D) Rep. Jeff Mangan (D) Rep. Doug Mood (R) Rep. Brennan Ryan (D) Rep. Frank Smith (D) Rep. Bill Tash (R) Rep. Bill Thomas (R) Representatives Excused: Rep. Doug Wagner (R) Representatives Absent: None Staff Present: Keri Burkhardt, Committee Secretary Karen Mills, House Committee Secretary David Niss, Legislative Branch 990308STS_Sm1.wpd SENATE COMMITTEE ON STATE ADMINISTRATION March 8, 1999 PAGE 2 of 23 Please Note: These are summary minutes. Testimony and discussion are paraphrased and condensed. Committee Business Summary: Hearing(s) & Date(s) Posted: SJ 10, 2/11/1999 Executive Action: None CHAIRMAN MACK COLE turned the meeting over to REPRESENTATIVE MATT BRAINARD, who is chairman of the House State Administration Committee. JOINT HEARING ON SJ 10 Sponsor: SEN. MACK COLE, SD 4, HYSHAM Proponents: Mark Racicot, Governor Steve Doherty, Senator, SD Kelly Addy Stan Kimmitt Evan Barrett Bob Barthumas, Miles City Carol Williams, Representative, HD 69, Missoula Mike Cooney, Secretary of State Greg morghan, Bozeman Mark Johnson Bob Reef, Chairman of Montana Democratic Party George Ashton Don Judge, AFL-CIO Harp Broody Amroth Mel Rudder, Retired Newspaper Publisher John Bartlett Frank Cote, Self Dorothy Bob Brown Bill Thomas, Representative Joe Quilici, Representative Opponents: None Opening Statement by Sponsor: {Tape : 1; Side : A; Approx.
    [Show full text]
  • Ref. BOR-12H, Page 1 of 19 U.S
    Harry Reid Harry Mason Reid (/riːd/; born December 2, 1939) is a retired Harry Reid American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He led the Senate's Democratic Conference from 2005 to 2017 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015. Reid began his public career as the city attorney for Henderson, Nevada before winning election to the Nevada Assembly in 1968. Reid's former boxing coach, Mike O'Callaghan, chose Reid as his running mate in the 1970 Nevada gubernatorial election, and Reid served as Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1971 to 1975. After being defeated in races for the United States Senate and the position of mayor of Las Vegas, Reid served as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981. From 1983 to 1987, Reid represented Nevada's 1st district in the United States House of Representatives. Senate Majority Leader Reid won election to the United States Senate in 1986 and served in In office the Senate from 1987 to 2017. He served as the Senate Democratic January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2015 Whip from 1999 to 2005 before succeeding Tom Daschle as Senate Deputy Dick Durbin Minority Leader. The Democrats won control of the Senate after the 2006 United States Senate elections, and Reid became the Preceded by Bill Frist Senate Majority Leader in 2007. He held that position for the last Succeeded by Mitch McConnell two years of George W. Bush's presidency and the first six years of Senate Minority Leader Barack Obama's presidency.
    [Show full text]
  • Interfaith and Tolerance - New York City Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
    University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Mike Mansfield Speeches Mike Mansfield Papers 6-3-1962 Interfaith and Tolerance - New York City Mike Mansfield 1903-2001 Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfield_speeches Recommended Citation Mansfield, Mike 1903-2001, "Interfaith and Tolerance - New York City" (1962). Mike Mansfield Speeches. 466. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfield_speeches/466 This Speech is brought to you for free and open access by the Mike Mansfield Papers at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mike Mansfield Speeches by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. J Statement of Senator Mike Mansfield (D . , Montana) At the Silver Jubilee Award Dinner of the Interfaith Movement, Inc . Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York Sunday, June 3, 1962, 7:30P.M. We have come together to honor a distinguished member of Interfaith, a distinguished Senator and a friend, Ken Keating. To honor a man is a personal act. Yet, in performing this act, tonight, I believe we are trying to give expression to something greater than our respect and affection for Senator Keat ing. In saying that, no slight is intended and I am sure that Senator Keating would be the first to recognize it. For what I am suggesting is that there are ideals which dwarf each of us as individuals. One of these ideals is that of justice and equality and brotherhood in the human family.
    [Show full text]
  • COVER STORY || INSIDE the SENATE the LOST SENATE If Senators Can't Get Along, How Can They Govern?
    COVER STORY || INSIDE THE SENATE THE LOST SENATE If senators can't get along, how can they govern? hirty years ago this fall, Ted Kennedy was running for president, Robert Byrd ruled the Senate floor as majority leader and a boyish Max Baucus had already jumped ahead of his freshman class by securing a seat on the powerful Finance Committee. At West Point, Army Capt. Jack Reed resigned his commission to enter THarvard Law School. In Brooklyn, state Assemblyman Chuck Schumer, Flatbush’s version of a young Lyndon Johnson, prepared to run for the House. And in Louisville, Ky., Jefferson County Judge Mitch McConnell waited — consolidating power, speaking around the state, but always with an eye toward the Senate, where he had interned for his hero, Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.), during the great civil rights debate of 1964. “That was when I first decided to try,” McConnell says. Change is a great constant in Congress: One generation is forever giving way to the next. But to look back 30 years at the Senate — when this reporter first came to Washington — is to see the last remnant of something now lost from American government. O C I T OLI By David Rogers John shinkle — P 54 POLITICO POLITICO 53 In 1979, a solid quarter of the senators had lived through the civil rights debate that elected senator — after years in the much larger House. so inspired McConnell. And in them, elements of the old Senate “club” still endured. Only a single row of lights was turned on in the ceiling — the Senate was not in Television had yet to intrude, preserving a greater intimacy and drawing senators session — and the Texan stood at the door, taking in the polished wooden desks to the floor to hear one another’s speeches.
    [Show full text]
  • Minutes of the Senate Democratic Conference
    MINUTES OF THE SENATE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE 1903±1964 MINUTES OF THE SENATE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE Fifty-eighth Congress through Eighty-eighth Congress 1903±1964 Edited by Donald A. Ritchie U.S. Senate Historical Office Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate U.S. Government Printing Office Washington 105th Congress S. Doc. 105±20 U.S. Government Printing Office Washington: 1998 Cover illustration: The Senate Caucus Room, where the Democratic Conference often met early in the twentieth century. Senate Historical Office. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Senate Democratic Conference (U.S.) Minutes of the Senate Democratic Conference : Fifty-eighth Congress through Eighty-eighth Congress, 1903±1964 / edited by Donald A. Ritchie ; prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. United States. Congress. SenateÐHistoryÐ20th centuryÐSources. 2. Democratic Party (U.S.)ÐHistoryÐ20th centuryÐSources. I. Ritchie, Donald A., 1945± . II. United States. Congress. Senate. Office of the Secretary. III. Title. JK1161.S445 1999 328.73'07657Ðdc21 98±42670 CIP iv CONTENTS Foreword ...................................................................................... xiii Preface .......................................................................................... xv Introduction ................................................................................. xvii 58th Congress (1903±1905) March 16, 1903 ....................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for Howard H. Baker, Jr., As Ambassador to Japan June 26, 2001
    Administration of George W. Bush, 2001 / June 26 We affirmed that additional efforts to panded trade and investment between the combat the devastating effects of HIV/ two countries. AIDS and other infectious diseases are ur- We affirmed our mutual desire for a gently needed, and we renewed our com- peaceful, democratic, prosperous mitment to working together against them Zimbabwe, in which human rights and rule and the conditions that enable the diseases of law are respected. We agreed that a to proliferate. We agreed to support the dialogue between the Government of An- establishment and funding of the global gola and UNITA rebels on implementing trust fund for HIV/AIDS and other diseases the Lusaka Protocol offers the best promise as a unique public-private partnership to for peace. We affirmed our commitment bring needed resources to the battle against to progress toward resolving the conflict in these diseases through a multi-sector, inte- the Democratic Republic of the Congo grated strategy. (DROC) and agreed to cooperate on con- We pledged to work together to support flict resolution efforts throughout Africa. the launching of a new round of World President Bush looks forward to the op- Trade Organization negotiations and af- portunity to visit South Africa as part of firmed that we have many common inter- the effort to continue building and fostering ests, in particular the growth of agricultural the growth of our bilateral relationship and trade and a shared commitment to working promoting our shared agenda. together to bridge the digital divide in Afri- ca. Likewise, we confirmed our satisfaction that the African Growth and Opportunity NOTE: An original was not available for Act (AGOA) has produced positive results verification of the content of this joint state- in South Africa, and has already led to ex- ment.
    [Show full text]
  • Senate the Senate Met at 9:30 A.M
    E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 107 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 147 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2001 No. 134 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was lic for which it stands, one nation under God, talk about our late friend and Senate called to order by the Honorable HARRY indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. majority leader, Mike Mansfield. But REID, a Senator from the State of Ne- f before I do, I shall take a moment to vada APPOINTMENT OF ACTING recognize the efforts of the men and PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE women of our Armed Forces who have PRAYER undertaken a dangerous mission in the The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John The PRESIDING OFFICER. The past few days. They are fighting to pro- Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: clerk will please read a communication tect our Nation’s interests and its se- Almighty God, we come to You as to the Senate from the President pro curity. They are working to ensure the intercessors for our beloved Nation at tempore (Mr. BYRD). freedom of others across the globe, The legislative clerk read the fol- this crucial time of confrontation with never wavering in their duty. Through- lowing letter: the evil forces of terrorism in the out America’s history, our sons and world. May this war be decisive, under- U.S. SENATE, daughters have always been ready to girded by Your mighty power and lead PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, Washington, DC, October 9, 2001.
    [Show full text]
  • New Business Comments Adjournment
    ASUM SENATE AGENDA October 10, 2001 - 6:00 p.m * ^ UC 332-333 Suite 105 University Center Associated Students Missoula, MT 59812 University of Montana (406) 243-2451 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - October 3, 2 001 4. PUBLIC COMMENT 5. PRESIDENT'S REPORT a. Remembering Mike Mansfield b. Ryan Campbell - Condom Plan c. Library Task Force d. Adam's Center e. Senators' Goals/Group Contact f. Lambda Peaceful Protest g . Other 6. VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT a. Committee Appointments b. Other 7. BUSINESS MANAGER'S REPORT STIP - $28,072.62 Travel Special Allocation - $0 ($9,450 Spring Semester) Zero-based Carryover - $154,000+ (less $50,696) Special Allocation - $5,184 a. SB6-01/02 Resolution to Amend Fiscal Policy b. Lambda Alliance Special Allocation Reguest - $720/$300 c. Other 8. COMMITTEE REPORTS 9. UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Go to http://www.umt.edu/asum/government/resolution.htm to see the resolutions as written.) a. SB8-01/02 Resolution Adopting A Mission Statement b. SB9-01/02 Resolution in Support of Dining Services Use of Shade Grown Organic Coffee c. SB11-01/02 Resolution Supporting the Addition of an HHP Fly Fishing Course d. SB12-01/02 Resolution Regarding Disability Access Transition Plan e. SB13-01/02 Resolution to Establish a Student Relations Committee f. SB14-01/02 Resolution to Amend the Elections Bylaws g. SB15-01/02 Resolution Supporting the Addition of Maurice Street Sidewalks to be added to the City of Missoula's ADA Master Plan h. SB16-01/02 Resolution Supporting the Abolition of the Montana University System Credit Cap i.
    [Show full text]
  • Walter Mondale Oral History About Bob Dole
    This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas. http://dolearchives.ku.edu ROBERT J. DOLE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Interview with WALTER MONDALE November 28, 2007 Interviewer Richard Norton Smith Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics 2350 Petefish Drive Lawrence, KS 66045 Phone: (785) 864-4900 Fax: (785) 864-1414 This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas. http://dolearchives.ku.edu Mondale 11-28-07—p. 2 [Vice president Mondale reviewed this transcript for accuracy of names and dates. Because no changes of substance were made, it is an accurate rendition of the original recording.] Smith: Mr. Vice President, first of all, you’re unique in that you obviously served a considerable amount of time in the Senate, you presided over the Senate, you were willing to go back to the Senate later on, and yet the Senate, I gather, has changed significantly during those forty years or so. What was it like when you went there in the beginning, and what’s your sense of how it’s changed? Mondale: Well, I think it has changed, and I underline the word think, because I know it’s changed, in my own mind, but others might disagree with it. I think when I came to the Senate, when Dole came to the Senate, I think ’68, four years later, while it was partisan, we had our debates and all that stuff, there was a kind of an underlying sense of civility, we’re all members of this club and we got to know each other, and we would crack jokes, and wherever we could, we’d try to find ways of doing things together.
    [Show full text]