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  • Collection: Mike Mansfield Papers 1903-2002, MSS 065

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Pen used by President Lyndon Johnson to sign H.R. 7152, Civil Rights Act of 1964, into law. Letter accompanying the pen gifting it to Mansfield.

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Senator Mansfield with President Kennedy, possibly in Oval Office. The two men sit side-by-side at a desk. A model ship is on the credenza behind the men and in front of a window. Flags are on either side of the men.

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Mike Mansfield poses for photo holding a book and his pipe

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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen phone President Lyndon Johnson to tell him the Senate is ready to adjourn the session that passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Senator Mike Mansfield with Senator Everett Dirksen and
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey after cloture was invoked to break a filibuster and allow a vote on the civil rights bill

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Senator Mike Mansfield with 36th President of the United States Lyndon Johnson. Though members of the same political party, Mansfield disapproved of President Johnson’s escalation of the Vietnam War.

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Senator Mike Mansfield and the 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon

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Senator Mike Mansfield with the 38th President of the United States Gerald Ford, 1976.

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Senator Milton Young’s signed response to Senator Mike Mansfield’s letter about the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

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INDOCHINA: Report of Senator Mike Mansfield on a Study Mission of the Associated States of Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

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Confidential Memo from Senator Mike Mansfield to President Lyndon Johnson opposing Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War.

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Notes of Senator Mansfield’s meeting with Senator Richard Russell, the leader of the Republican opposition to the Civil Rights Bill.

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Senator Mansfield’s vote count on which senators would vote for cloture to end the filibuster on the civil rights bill.

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Copy of letter written by Mike Mansfield to Everett Dirksen after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This letter was sent to all 99 US senators, regardless of how they voted.

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Senator Hubert Humphrey’s signed response to Senator Mike Mansfield’s letter about the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

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Senator George Aiken’s response to Mansfield’s letter about the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Mansfield ate breakfast with his Republican colleague every morning before heading to work in the Senate.

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Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen’s signed response to Senator Mike Mansfield’s letter about the passage of the Civil Rights Act

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Senator Mansfield Deflating the Southern Civil Rights Filibuster. Text: “I knew I’d eventually run out of hot air.”
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