Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Montana; oil on canvas by Aaron Shikler, 1978 – Wikimedia image
Mike Mansfield was born on March 16, 1903. Best boss I ever had.
Robert A. Nowlan’s Born This Day attributed this quote to Mansfield:
After all, even a politician is human.
Laconic as he was, Mansfield didn’t say anything more meaty than that?
Read about Mansfield at the Bathtub, here. Mansfield died on October 5, 2001.
At a sad time when the political agenda of activist republic destroyers includes bitterly working hard to wipe out the history of great men like Mansfield, it’s important we remember him on his birthday.
This is a photo of one of the rarest views of history one can see, visible only to those few people who get onto the floor of the U.S. Senate, and only if someone opens a desk for them. One of the more interesting, odd, and sentimental traditions developed in the U.S. Senate is the signing of the desks. Sometime in the 19th century senators began signing the inside of the desks they were assigned to on the Senate floor. Sometimes a desk gets associated with a particular state and a senator from that class; sometimes a desk get associated with family (Sens. John, Ted and Robert Kennedy, for example). Here is Senate desk X, used by Democratic leaders (Joseph T. Robinson, Alben W. Barkley, Scott W. Lucas, Ernest McFarland, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Robert Byrd, George J. Mitchell, Tom Daschle and Harry Reid) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
More:
- At Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub:
- UM makes portion of Mike Mansfield collection available online (billingsgazette.com)
- UM makes portion of Mike Mansfield collection available online (missoulian.com)
- Franken, Messina to highlight Montana Democratic Party’s annual dinner (missoulian.com)
- Democrats use Mansfield-Metcalf fundraiser in Helena to rally around Baucus (missoulian.com)
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