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 1968
Remarks of Senator Mansfield at the Rally for Senator McGovern, Huron, S.D., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Seton Hall University Commencement Address, Not used due to RFK, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Arthur V. Watkins Distinguished Congressional Service Award, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, A Time of Trouble, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, A Time of Violence, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, China: Retrospect and Prospect, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Foreign Policy in the Coming Campaign, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, International Responsibilities: Reappraisal and Reapportionment, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, These Troubled Days, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Towards a Discerning Internationalism, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Viet Nam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Telegram re: Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Pueblo Incident, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
These Troubled Days - Last Chance Press Club - Placer Hotel - Helena, Mt., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Situation in Czechoslovakia and U.S. Forces in Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Situation in Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Towards a Discerning Internationalism, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
University of Arkansas International Responsibilities Reappraisal and Reapportionment, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
University of Indiana Convocation - Assessment in Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
University of Maine Convocation, Reprint of Record under Senator Muskie - Page S. 1346, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vietnam - Desirability of a Resolution of our Involvement in Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Visit to the Senate by Crow Indians, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1967
A History of the Democratic Party, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
A Quarter Century Homecoming, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Brotherhood and World Peace - Newark, New Jersey, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Central Concerns of American Foreign Policy - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Readers Bite on Tongue-in-Cheek Article, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reprint - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Reprint - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 10372-31 - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 11017 - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 11286-87 Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 11457-58 Escalation of Vietnam War, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 14825 - Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 7572 - In the Shadow of Vietnam - Haverford College, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 9353 - Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S.J. Res. 18 - Voting: Lowering Age to 18, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Representation for the District of Columbia, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Copper Strike 1967 -Congressional Record Reprint Page 14039, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Critical Components of Current U.S. Foreign Policy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
East-West Relations and the Senate of the U.S., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
In a Montana Mood - Washington, D.C. - University of Montana Foundation Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Landlord, Half Billion, Public Domain Acres, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Merger - Great Northern - Northern Pacific Railroads, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Merger of Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington Railroads, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Montana Petroleum Association, Billings, Mt., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Needs for a Land Council, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Northern Lines - Railroad Merger, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
November 30 Congressional Record Reprint Copies of Joint Letter, Mansfield-Metcalf, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
President's Magna Carta for Urban America, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Radio and TV Correspondents Association, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
San Juan,, Puerto Rico - Convention of Puerto Rico Man. Association - The U.S. and the World Scene, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Senator Aiken's Speech, Endowment Dinner - Helena, Mt. -Congressional Record, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, A Quarter Century Homecoming, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Central Concerns of American Foreign Policy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Critical Components of Current U. S. Foreign Policy, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches Given Elsewhere, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, In a Montana Mood, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, In the Shadow of Viet Nam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, The Western Pacific: Perspective and Prospective, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Speeches, Troubled Times, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
S. Res. 49 - Reduction of U.S. Forces in Europe, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Mike Mansfield - Big Hole National Monument, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Statement of Senator Metcalf (Including Senator Mansfield's Views) Gun Control Legislation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Subcommittee on Library and Memorials, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Support of Res. 25 Merger - Congressional Record, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Consular Convention - East-West Trade Act, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The President - Senator Kennedy Speak in N.Y., Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The UN, the Middle East and Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
The Western Pacific Perspective and Prospective, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Troubled Times - Kansas City Missouri - Missouri Bar Association, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
U.S. and Asian Development Bank - Investment in Peace, Freedom and Prosperity, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
U.S. Japanese Relations - Properties, Problems, and Prospects - Shimoda, Japan - Japanese-American Assembly, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Vietnam - UN Security Council Should Turn Attention to Vietnam, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Submissions from 1966
Alumni Magazine of University of Montana, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Award of Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Libby Dam - Hungry Horse, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record Page 22611 re: Prayer, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record re: Armed Services Committee and Reserve Forces, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record S. 5351-52 - Statement of Senator Mansfield, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - The Northern Cheyenne Indians, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Congressional Record - Vietnam and the UN, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Democratic Congressional Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Hanoi on their Proposal for Cease Fires Christmas and Easter, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Introduction of the Administration East-West Trade Relations Bill, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Kenneth P. O'Donnell Friendship Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
l5th Annual Silver Quill Dinner, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Metcalf Campaign Kick Off - Stevensville, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Operation Bold (Blast Off Libby Dam), Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Press Release Legislation in the 90th Congress, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001
Press Release of MM - The Copper Situation, Mike Mansfield 1903-2001