We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.

Mansfield is particularly renowned for describing the United States-Japan relationship as the 'most important bilateral relationship in the world bar none'. Early childhood
Mansfield was born in the Brooklyn section of New York City to Patrick J. He went to China on a special mission for President Franklin D.

Representative (1943–1953) and a U. After retiring from the Senate Mansfield served as U. S.