Mike Mansfield correspondence files, 1959-1968.

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Mike Mansfield correspondence files, 1959-1968.

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Correspondence of Butte mayors Vern "Hanna" Grifith and Thomas F. Powers with U.S. senator Mike Mansfield. Topics include assistance to repair infrastructure damage caused by the 1959 earthquake; economic impact of the 1959 strike; economic development and diversity; postal, air, and rail service; highway construction; tuberculosis statistics; urban renewal; the Vietnam War; employment; storm sewer financing; and food stamps.

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Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives

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Griffith, Vern, 1915-1972

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Powers, Thomas F., 1918-1988

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Butte (Mont.). Mayor

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Mansfield, Michael Joseph "Mike", 1903-2001

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Mike Mansfield Quiet Leadership in Troubled Times On March 24, 1998, Mike Mansfield returned to the Senate to deliver the first Leader's Lecture in the Old Senate Chamber, which had been restored during his long tenure as Senate majority leader. Many of the senators who attended had not served with Mansfield. He was 95 years old, but stood straight and spoke forthrightly. In reflecting on Senate leadership, he chose to deliver a speech that he had planned to give on November 22, 1963, but ...