This digital collection consists of speeches by, statements of and interviews with Mike Mansfield (1903-2001) drawn from the extensive Mike Mansfield Papers held at the University of Montana’s Mansfield Library. Mansfield was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1942 and served five terms as representative of Montana’s 1st District. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952 and reelected in 1958, 1964 and 1970. He became Assistant Majority Leader (Majority Whip) of the Senate in January 1957, and served in that capacity until 1961 when he was elected Majority Leader of the Senate. He held that position until he retired from the Senate in 1977 - longer than any other Majority Leader in the history of the U.S. Senate. He served as Ambassador to Japan from 1977-1988, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989.
The digitized content in this online collection spans Mansfield’s career as a candidate, legislator and ambassador. The majority of the content is from the 1940s to the 1970s. The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center partnered to make this digital collection available. You may search or browse this collection.
Submissions from 1974
Speeches, Commencement, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Congressional Leadership: Today and Tomorrow, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Democratic Campaign Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Meeting on Economic Foresight, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Remarks at Annual Convention of Arkansas Bankers Association, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Statement at a Meeting on Economic Foresight, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, State of the Congress, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, State of the Economy: A Congressional View, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
S. Res. 401 - Presidential Pardon for Watergate Participants, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
State of the Congress, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Tax Reform - Religious and Charitable Contributions, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changing Pacific and Asia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1973
Amtrak in Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Biography of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Cambodia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
China and the U.S., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Closing Plenary Session, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Compensation for Victims of Crime, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congress and its Responsibility in the Present Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Appointments of Offices of Director and Deputy Director of Office of Management and Budget, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Cambodia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Cambodia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Gas Rationing Will be Necessary, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Leonid Brezhnev's Visit to the United States, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Reduction of Military Spending Overseas, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 11395 - Statement of Senator Mansfield - Watergate re: Suspension of Hearings During Brezhnev's Visit, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 12130 - The President's Veto of the Urgent Second Supplemental Appropriation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 1409 - Peace in Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 1625 - Senator Metcalf's Statement on Regulation of Surfacing Mining, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 19095 - Surface Mining Reclamation Act, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 19300 - The Middle East Conflict, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 20321 - Energy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 20407 - National Emergency Petroleum Act of 1973, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 20583 - Energy Record - Congress and the Executive Branch, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 20600 - The Energy Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 20844 - The Energy Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 21230 - The Energy Crisis Expansion of Amtrak Service, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 21972 - Amtrak Passenger Service in the Northwest, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 21972 - Reduced U.S. Imports of Canadian Oil Imports, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 21973 - Alternative Solutions to the Energy Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 2242 - Gun Control, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 22430 - Amtrak Can Help the Public Transportation Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 22866 - Exports of Oil to Vietnam, Cambodia, Etc., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 3833-4 - Inequitable Treatment of the Indian, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 5679 - U.S. Forest Service Reorganization, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 6247 - Meat Price Controls, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 6717 - Post-War Peace and Aid to Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 7682 - The Deteriorating Situation in Cambodia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 7883 - U.S. Forest Service Regional Structure, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 8424 - The Watergate Conspiracy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 8599 - Reorganization of Forest Service Regional Operation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 9382 - Speech on Commemoration of Loss and Suffering of the Dead and Wounded Members of the Armed Forces Occasioned by the War in Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 973 - Zweifel Mining Claims Custer National Forest, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 977 - Montana and the Nation's Energy Crisis, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 9830 and 1839 - Appropriations Bill and the Bombing of Cambodia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Senate Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The Administration's Proposal to Reorganize the U.S. Forest Service, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The Senate in 1973: A Year of Achievement, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Vietnam: Ceasefire, POW, etc., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Death of Alexander Warden, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Caucus of Governors Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
In Connection with Military Bill and Amendment, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Remembrance, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Los Angeles Times - 'Mansfield Favors a Single 6-Year Term to Separate Presidency from Politics', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mansfield at the Democratic Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Message: Rocky Boy Elementary School Dedication, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Middle East, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Mining Reclamation Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Montana Newsman Takes Bicentennial Post, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
National Translator Association, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Nomination of Dr. Kissinger and Cambodian Situation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Opening Statement Before the Senate Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Passing of President Johnson, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Personal - Questions for Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Senator Mansfield - Kick-Off Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, China and the United States, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Democratic Conference, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Democratic Kick Off Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, John F. Kennedy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Reduction of U.S. Troops in Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Report on U.S.-Philippines Relations, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement by Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Subcommittee on Arms Control - International Law and Organizations re: Troop Reductions in Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Teachers Guides to Television - 'A Career in Public Service?', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Testimonial Dinner for Senator Frank Church - Boise, Idaho, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Evening Sentinel - Jones Interviews Mansfield - 'Servant of the Senate', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Gun Criminal: Dangerous Special Offender, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Minimum Wage Law Senate Legislative Activity Action During Adjournment, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Observer Article - 'Voter Turnout at Lowest Level in Six Years', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The President's 2nd State of the Union Address, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Progressive - 'Changing Styles in Reform', Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Six Year Presidency, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
U.S. News and World Report - 'A Better Feeling' Between Congress and Nixon Page 26, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Watergate, Inflation, Energy Crisis, Campaign Reforms, Health, Education, Etc., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Watergate re: Cox-Richardson, Memorandum, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001