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Don Oberdorfer's Mansfield Biography Research Papers, 1918-2003
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Oberdorfer, Don B. 1931-2015
- Title
- Don Oberdorfer's Mansfield Biography Research Papers
- Dates
- 1918-2003 (inclusive)19182003
- Quantity
- 14.0 linear feet and 72 audiocassette tapes
- Collection Number
- Mss 590
- Summary
- The collection contains materials related to the research and writing of Oberdorfer’s book, Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat (Smithsonian Books, 2003).
- Repository
-
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu - Access Restrictions
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Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana--Missoula. Most of audio in Series III is currently restricted pending review by the speakers or their family regarding appropriate access to the interviews. Contact Archives and Special Collections for details.
- Languages
- English, Japanese
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Don Oberdorfer was born May 28, 1931 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Princeton University in 1952 and served as a United States Army lieutenant in Korea from 1953 to 1954. He began his journalistic career on the Charlotte Observer in 1955, becoming the paper’s Washington correspondent in 1958. He was a Washington editor at the Saturday Evening Post (1961-1965) and a national correspondent for the Knight Newspapers chain (1965-1968). During his twenty-five years at the Washington Post (1968-1993), he worked as a White House correspondent, Northeast Asia correspondent, and diplomatic correspondent.
Oberdorfer authored of five books and numerous newspaper and magazine articles. His books include Tet! (Doubleday, 1971; Da Capo Press, 1984) and The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Addison-Wesley, 1997). He retired from the The Post in 1993, then became the Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he founded the U.S.-Korea Institute (USKI) at at the Nitze School, which he also chaired until 2013 when he became chairman emeritus. Don Oberdorfer died on July 23, 2015.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection contains materials related to the research and writing of Oberdorfer’s book, Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat (Smithsonian Books, 2003), which won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 2003. The book is a biography of Mike Mansfield, a United States House Representative and Senator from Montana who also served as ambassador to Japan during the Carter and Reagan administrations. The collection provides access to the documents and other materials that Oberdorfer cites in his book, Senator Mansfield. The research materials include photocopies and summaries from books and articles about Mansfield and related historical topics, as well as primary documents gathered from archival repositories like the presidential libraries of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. The research materials provide glimpses into Mansfield’s personal life and public career through copies of correspondence, photographs, and other materials from the private collections of Mansfield family members.
The collection includes summaries of Oberdorfer’s conversations with Mansfield’s family, colleagues, and friends and some drafts of chapters from Oberdorfer’s book. Manuscript drafts and writings related to the book are filed with the research materials. The collection also contains recorded interviews with Mansfield and Mansfield's colleagues that Oberdorfer conducted as research for the Mansfield biography, as well as non-interview audio recordings related to Oberdorfer's research.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to The University of Montana.
Preferred Citation
Don Oberdorfer's Mansfield Biography Research Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula.
Alternative Forms Available
All of the cassettes in Series II, most of the cassettes in Series III, and some of the cassettes in Series IV have been digitized for access and preservation purposes.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
This collection is divided into four series:
Series I: Research Files, 14.0 linear foot, 1918-2003
Series II: Audio Interviews with Mansfield, 21 audio cassettes, 1998-2001
Series III: Audio Interviews with Mansfield's Colleagues, 41 audio cassettes, 1998-2001 - RESTRICTED
Series IV: Audio Recordings, 10 audio cassettes, 1980-2000 and undated
Acquisition Information
Gift of Don Oberdorfer, 2004, 2005 and 2009.
Processing Note
The collection reflects Oberdofer’s original folder titles and arrangement. Original folders were replaced with acid-free folders. The processors added bracketed notations to folder titles for clarification.
The audio interviews that Oberdorfer conducted with Mansfield were identified as an oral history collection, Don Oberdorfer Interviews with Mike Mansfield Oral History Project and given collection number OH 391. This oral history project consists of twenty-one taped interviews with transcripts, and one additional transcript of Oberdorfer's initial meetings with Mansfield about the project. The audio and transcripts for this project are available online through ScholarWorks.
The audio interviews Oberdorfer conducted with other individuals about Mansfield were identified as an oral history collection, Don Oberdorfer Interviews about Mike Mansfield Oral History Project, and given collection number OH 460. This oral history project consists of forty-two taped interviews with Mansfield's colleagues, friends and family about his personal life and career.
Related Materials
Princeton University holds a collection of Don Oberdorfer’s papers related to another of his publications.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I: Research Files, 1918-2003Return to Top
The collection includes summaries of Oberdorfer’s conversations with Mansfield’s family, colleagues, and friends and some drafts of chapters from Oberdorfer’s book. Manuscript drafts and writings related to the book are filed with the research materials.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | Mansfield biographies |
undated |
| 1/2 | Mansfield honesty,
frugality |
1963-2001 |
| 1/3 | Correspondence, book
substance |
1998-2002 |
| 1/4 | M [Mansfield] Death, obits
etc |
2001-2002 |
| 1/5 | Mansfield’s funeral |
2001-2002 |
| 1/6 | MM [Mike Mansfield] statement
lists |
1965, 1976 and undated |
| 1/7 | Bibliography |
1944-1999 |
| 1/8 | Questionnaires of M
[Mansfield] |
1971-1975 |
| 1/9 | MM [Mike Mansfield] Oral histories
and correspondence |
1964-1986 |
| 1/10 | Man [Mansfield] |
1937-2000 |
| 1/11 | M [Mansfield] – family and friends
– (Montana, New York) |
1909-2001 and undated |
| 2/1 | Maureen |
1999-2002 and undated |
| 2/2 | Mansfield, Anne |
1966-2000 and undated |
| 2/3 | M [Mansfield] interviews – my tapes
(transcripts) |
1998-2001 |
| 2/4 | M [Mansfield] Health and Maureen
Health |
1998-2001 |
| 2/5 | Interviews and correspondence with
others |
1977-2001 |
| 2/6 | M [Mansfield] interviews with
others |
1976-1991 |
| 2/7 | Time Magazine
interviews |
1957 |
| 2/8 | Senators and M
[Mansfield] |
1978-1991 and undated |
| 2/9 | M [Mansfield] – interviews with
Senators (Jeffrey Safford papers) |
1976-1977 |
| 2/10 | Montana
Representative/Senator |
1960-1972 |
| 2/11 | Montana Politics |
undated |
| 3/1 | M [Mansfield] –
Reference |
1976-1997 and undated |
| 3/2 | Great Falls |
1996-2000 and undated |
| 3/3 | M [Mansfield]’s Military
Records |
1919-2000 and undated |
| 3/4 | M [Mansfield] Military World War
I |
1918-2001 and undated |
| 3/5 | Man [Mansfield] Memoirs |
1988-2001 and undated |
| 3/6 | Butte |
1944-2001 and undated |
| 3/7 | University of Montana |
1934-2003 and undated |
| 3/8 | Kawai |
1951-2001 |
| 3/9 | In Congress – 1943 etc |
1943-2000 and undated |
| 4/1 | Campaigns (1940, 1942) |
1939-2000 and undated |
| 4/2 | Campaigns (1946, 1948,
1950) |
1946-1981 |
| 4/3 | 1952 Campaign |
1951-2002 and undated |
| 4/4 | Campaigns (1958, 1964) |
1958-1964 and undated |
| 4/5 | 1970 Campaign |
1970-2001 and undated |
| 4/6 | Eighteen-year-old vote |
1970-1999 |
| 4/7 | M [Mansfield] – Korea |
1948-1991 and undated |
| 4/8 | Gun Control (1968) |
1968-1991 and undated |
| 4/9 | Rowe correspondence |
1949-2000 and undated |
| 4/10 | Engelhard |
1958-2002 and undated |
| 5/1 | Frank Valeo (Oral
history) |
1985-1986 |
| 5/2 | Frank Valeo
(interviews) |
1998-1999 and undated |
| 5/3 | Ludwick materials |
1995 and undated |
| 5/4 | Anne Mansfield
materials |
1960-1976 and undated |
| 5/5 | Vietnam (1950s) |
1949-1974 and undated |
| 5/6 | Foreign Policy, Statements etc.
(1953-60) |
1951-1960 |
| 5/7 | 1953 Trip |
1953-1999 and undated |
| 6/1 | 1954 |
1954 |
| 6/2 | 1954 Trip |
1954 |
| 6/3 | 1954 Manila Conference |
1954-2001 |
| 6/4 | 1954 Manila Conference |
1953-1988 and undated |
| 6/5 | 1955 Trip and 1955 |
1955-1957 and undated |
| 7/1 | Diem 1955 Materials |
1955-1991 and undated |
| 7/2 | M [Mansfield] and Diem
(General) |
1956-1998 and undated |
| 7/3 | Diem (Pre-1954) |
1951-2001 and undated |
| 7/4 | Diem (1954 – 1960) |
1945-1998 and undated |
| 7/5 | Dulles (1950) |
1953-2000 and undated |
| 7/6 | Lansdale papers |
1950-2001 |
| 7/7 | M [Mansfield] Foreign Policy
Vietnam (early 1950s) |
1952-2002 and undated |
| 7/8 | China (1922 Marines) |
1922-1998 and undated |
| 8/1 | Tientsin |
1922-2000 and undated |
| 8/2 | Tientsin Photographs |
2000 |
| 8/3 | Tientsin 2 |
1918 and undated |
| 8/4 | Tientsin 3 |
1920-1999 and undated |
| 8/5 | China 1944
Preliminaries |
1944-1999 and undated |
| 8/6 | China Trip 1944
Background |
1943-1999 and undated |
| 8/7 | China Trip (1944) |
1944-1999 and undated |
| 9/1 | China Trip 44 (Diary,
Reports) |
1942-2000 and undated |
| 9/2 | China Trip 44 (Diary,
Reports) |
1944-1999 and undated |
| 9/3 | Post China Trip
(1944-1945) |
1945-1972 and undated |
| 9/4 | Mansfield speeches
(1945) |
1945 |
| 9/5 | Revisions to chapter "Mission in
China" |
2000 and undated |
| 9/6 | MM [Mike Mansfield],
Truman |
1940-2000 |
| 9/7 | Philosophical Philosophies, China
Policy, Latin American Study Trip |
1946-2000 and undated |
| 9/8 | Surrender of Japan |
1945-1999 and undated |
| 10/1 | Revision I, Truman |
1945-2002 and undated |
| 10/2 | 1947 Europe Journal |
1947 |
| 10/3 | Congressional Record
index |
1943-1976 |
| 10/4 | MM [Mike Mansfield] JFK [John F.
Kennedy] (1960-1963) |
1960-1986 and undated |
| 10/5 | China 1960-61 etc |
1958-1999 and undated |
| 10/6 | JFK [John F. Kennedy]- MM [Mike
Mansfield] Chronological file |
1960-1998 and undated |
| 10/7 | Foreign Affairs (Cuba
1961-1962) |
1961-1963 and undated |
| 10/8 | Germany-JFK [John F.
Kennedy] |
1959-1968 and undated |
| 11/1 | Intelligence Oversight |
1953-1977 and undated |
| 11/2 | Majority Leader
(1961-1963) |
1960-1998 and undated |
| 11/3 | Majority Leader
(1961-1963) |
1962-1997 and undated |
| 11/4 | Laos (1961- 1962) |
1954-2000 and undated |
| 11/5 | Laos (1961- 1962) |
1961-1998 and undated |
| 11/6 | Vietnam 1962-JFK [John F. Kennedy]
withdrawal issue |
1962-1997 and undated |
| 11/7 | Vietnam 1962-JFK [John F. Kennedy]
withdrawal issue |
1962-1998 and undated |
| 11/8 | Diem (1960s including
1963) |
1962-1998 and undated |
| 12/1 | Rometsch case |
1963-2000 and undated |
| 12/2 | MM [Mike Mansfield] JFK [John F.
Kennedy] Personal |
1954-1988 and undated |
| 12/3 | Vietnam 1962 (Prelude) |
1961-1962 and undated |
| 12/4 | Vietnam 1962 (Prelude) |
1960-1963 |
| 12/5 | M [Mansfield] JFK [John F. Kennedy]
1962 Vietnam trip |
1962 |
| 12/6 | M [Mansfield] JFK [John F. Kennedy]
1962 Vietnam trip |
1962-1963 |
| 13/1 | Vietnam-1962 JFK [John F. Kennedy]
follow up |
1962-1963 and undated |
| 13/2 | Chapter VIII revisions-JFK [John F.
Kennedy] era |
1961-2001 and undated |
| 13/3 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]
(1963) |
1963 |
| 13/4 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]
(1964) |
1964-2002 |
| 13/5 | Majority Leader
(1964-1968) |
1966-2001 |
| 13/6 | Civil Rights Majority
Leader |
1964-1987 and undated |
| 14/1 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]-MM [Mike
Mansfield] relationship (Vietnam) |
1963-2000 and undated |
| 14/2 | Tonkin Gulf (1964) |
1964-2000 and undated |
| 14/3 | Patronage politics-LBJ [Lyndon B.
Johnson] era |
1960-2001 and undated |
| 14/4 | M [Mansfield] Fulbright
1965-1966 |
1965-2002 and undated |
| 14/5 | Foreign Relations of the United
States excerpts |
1958-1968 |
| 14/6 | Richard B. Russell
materials |
1963-1999 and undated |
| 14/7 | M [Mansfield]-LBJ [Lyndon B.
Johnson] (1965) |
1965 and undated |
| 15/1 | M [Mansfield]-LBJ [Lyndon B.
Johnson] (1965) |
1965 and undated |
| 15/2 | Pleiku |
1965 |
| 15/3 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]-M
[Mansfield] Personal |
1964-1988 and undated |
| 15/4 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]-M
[Mansfield] Personal |
1955-1998 and undated |
| 15/5 | 1965 Trip |
1954-2002 and undated |
| 15/6 | 1965 Trip |
1965 |
| 16/1 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]
(1966) |
1965-1967 |
| 16/2 | 1966-1967 including United Nations
materials |
1966-1967 and undated |
| 16/3 | 1966-1967 including United Nations
materials |
1966-1967 and undated |
| 16/4 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]
(1967) |
1967-1998 and undated |
| 16/5 | Speeches (1961–1967) |
1963-1968 |
| 16/6 | Johnson I revisions |
1965-2001 and undated |
| 17/1 | Johnson (other
materials) |
undated |
| 17/2 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] Daily
Diary |
1963-1968 |
| 17/3 | Troops Europe
(1966-1968) |
1966-1968 and undated |
| 17/4 | M [Mansfield] – LBJ [Lyndon B.
Johnson] meeting 3/27/1968 |
1968-2000 and undated |
| 17/5 | M [Mansfield] – LBJ [Lyndon B.
Johnson] meeting 3/27/1968 |
1968-2000 and undated |
| 17/6 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]
tapes |
1964-2001 and undated |
| 17/7 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] Congress
and Foreign Policy |
1968-2002 |
| 17/8 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] 1968
Pre-speech |
1968-1996 and undated |
| 17/9 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] Bombing
halt and troops |
1968-1998 and undated |
| 18/1 | LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson]
politics |
1968-1999 and undated |
| 18/2 | Post-March 1968 |
1968-1969 |
| 18/3 | Meetings |
1966-1969 |
| 18/4 | Walt W. Rostow |
1999 |
| 18/5 | Nixon (1969) |
1969-1991 |
| 18/6 | M [Mansfield] Asia Trip
(1969) |
1969-1999 and undated |
| 18/7 | M [Mansfield] Asia Trip
(1969) |
1969 and undated |
| 18/8 | Nixon (1969-1970) |
1969-1970 and undated |
| 19/1 | Nixon (1970) |
1970-1977 and undated |
| 19/2 | Nixon (1970) |
1970-1988 and undated |
| 19/3 | Nixon (1971) |
1971-2001 and undated |
| 19/4 | Nixon (1971) |
1971-2002 and undated |
| 19/5 | Nixon (1972) |
1972-1978 and undated |
| 19/6 | Nixon (1972) |
1972 |
| 20/1 | M [Mansfield] Amendment (Europe
1971) |
1961-1999 and undated |
| 20/2 | Prince Sihanouk (Cambodia/China
1969) |
1969-1999 and undated |
| 20/3 | MM [Mike Mansfield]
Cambodia |
1970-1998 and undated |
| 20/4 | MM [Mike Mansfield] China
Miscellaneous |
1942-2001 and undated |
| 20/5 | China material |
1971 and undated |
| 20/6 | Cambodia materials from Julio A.
Jeldres |
1969-2002 and undated |
| 20/7 | Early 1972 (China
leadup) |
1972 |
| 21/1 | 1972 Trip in China |
1972 and undated |
| 21/2 | 1972 China trip (Hildenbrand and
Scott) |
1972 |
| 21/3 | China trip 1972
follow-up |
1968-1986 and undated |
| 21/4 | 1973 China trip idea |
1972-2002 and undated |
| 21/5 | Nixon (1973) |
1972-1977 and undated |
| 21/6 | Watergate |
1973-2002 and undated |
| 22/1 | 1974 China Trip |
1974-1975 and undated |
| 22/2 | 1974 Nixon (Mansfield) |
1974 |
| 22/3 | Nixon (Mansfield,
General) |
1969-2000 and undated |
| 22/4 | MM [Mike Mansfield] Vietnam
(General) |
1954-1986 and undated |
| 22/5 | Majority Leader
(General) |
1967-2001 and undated |
| 22/6 | Ford (General) |
undated |
| 22/7 | Ford (1974) |
1974 |
| 22/8 | Ford (1975) |
1975 |
| 22/9 | Fall of Saigon 1975
(Mayaguez) |
1975, 2002 and undated |
| 23/1 | 1976 China trip |
1976 and undated |
| 23/2 | Ford (1976) |
1975-1976 |
| 23/3 | Ford M [Mansfield]
contacts |
1974 |
| 23/4 | Mansfield photos (not
used) |
undated |
| 23/5 | Miscellaneous
newspapers |
1999 and 2001 |
| 23/6 | Reports by Senator
Mansfield |
1967-1975 |
| 24/1 | Reports by Senator
Mansfield |
1976 |
| 24/2 | Senate tributes to Mike
Mansfield |
1976-1976 |
| 24/3 | Mansfield's FBI file, obtained at
Oberdorfer's request |
1943-2000 |
| 24/4 | 1972 China trip, [Senator Hugh]
Scott materials |
1972 |
| 24/5 | Japan - reference |
1985-2000 |
| 24/6 | Japan - used materials |
1977-1993 |
| 24/7 | Mansfield - Japan
pre-appointment |
1976-1977 |
| 25/1 | Mansfield interviews,
Japan |
1998-2000 |
| 25/2 | Japan -
Ambassador/personal |
1977-2000 |
| 25/3 | Embassy |
1978-2003 |
| 25/4 | Japan - criticisms of Mansfield and
reports that he is leaving [Japan] |
1980-1988 |
| 25/5 | Japan - Reagan re-appointment and
retirement appointments |
1980-1998 |
| 25/6 | Japan - Mansfield and
Reagan |
1985-2002 |
| 25/7 | Japan - Nakasone |
1982-1998 |
| 25/8 | Japan - Assessments |
1978-2000 |
| 25/9 | Mansfield - Japan, 81-82
(Reagan) |
1981-1998 |
| 25/10 | Japan - Mansfield,
83-84 |
1983-1998 |
| 25/11 | Japan - Mansfield,
85-86 |
1985-1996 |
| 25/12 | Japan - Mansfield,
87-88 |
1987-1999 |
| 26/1 | Japan - submarine [USS George
Washington] incident 1981 |
1981-1999 |
| 26/2 | [Japan] - auto [manufacture]
80-81 |
1980-1998 |
| 26/3 | Robert Strauss [and Ambassador
Mansfield] |
1977-2000 |
| 26/4 | Japan - Defense issues |
1977-1999 |
| 26/5 | Mansfield retirement
reports |
1988 |
| 26/6 | Japan - economy |
1978-2003 |
| 26/7 |
New York Times and
Congressional Record indexes of speeches [and
articles] |
1977-1989 |
| 26/8 | Japan - [research] |
undated |
| 27/1 | [Mansfield's] congressional
retirement '76 |
1975-1999 |
| 27/2 | 1976 China trip, Asia
trips |
1975-1976 |
| 27/3 | Japan, [Mansfield] and President
Carter |
1977-1998 |
| 27/4 | President Carter library
materials |
1978-1979 |
| 27/5 | Japan - Tokai Mura '77 |
1977-2003 |
| 27/6 | [Michael] Pillsbury |
1978-1998 |
| 27/7 |
Facts on File indexes |
1980-1988 |
| 27/8 | [White House and National Security
Council general correspondence and news clippings] |
1977 |
| 28/1 | [White House and National Security
Council general correspondence and news clippings] |
1978 |
| 28/2 | [White House and National Security
Council general correspondence and news clippings] |
1979 |
| 28/3 | [White House and National Security
Council general correspondence and news clippings] |
1980 |
| 28/4 | [Ambassadors and Japan] post Mike
Mansfield |
1989 |
| 28/5 | Mansfield, post
retirement |
1983-1999 |
| 28/6 |
Kambuja, Cambodian magazine with article about Mike
Mansfield's visit to Cambodia |
1969 |
| Box | ||
| 28/7 | Oberdorfer's raw transcripts of the interviews
he conducted with Mike Mansfield (OH 391) |
1998-2001 |
Series II: Audio Interviews with Mansfield, 1998-2001Return to Top
This series contains oral history interviews Oberdorfer conducted with Mike Mansfield as research for Oberdorfer’s biography on Mansfield.
These audio interviews were assigned an oral history collection name, Don Oberdorfer Interviews with Mike Mansfield Oral History Project and given collection number OH 391, to facilitate discovery and access.
There is no recorded audio OH 391-001 cassette tape. The interview consists of Don Oberdorfer’s notes taken during his first unrecorded meetings with Mansfield about the biography. A full transcript of these notes is available on ScholarWorks.
Electronic copies of the audio are available from the University of Montana's Archives and Special Collections as oral history project OH 391.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| OH 391-002 | July 24, 1998 | |
| OH 391-003 | August 28, 1998 | |
| OH 391-004 | September 10, 1998 | |
| OH 391-005 | October 8, 1998 | |
| OH 391-006 | October 29, 1998 | |
| OH 391-007 | April 9, 1999 | |
| OH 391-008 | July 24, 1999 | |
| OH 391-009 | August 18, 1999 | |
| OH 391-010 | September 9, 1999 | |
| OH 391-011 | October 20, 1999 | |
| OH 391-012 | October 23, 1999 | |
| OH 391-013 | November 26, 1999 | |
| OH 391-014 | January 27, 2000 | |
| OH 391-015 | February 18, 2000 | |
| OH 391-016 | April 20, 2000 | |
| OH 391-017 | May 11, 2000 | |
| OH 391-018 | July 21, 2000 | |
| OH 391-019 | October 10, 2000 | |
| OH 391-020 | November 10, 2000 | |
| OH 391-021 | June 1, 2001 | |
| OH 391-022 | July 20, 2001 |
Series III: Audio Interviews with Mansfield's Colleagues, 1998-2001Return to Top
This series contains oral history interviews Oberdorfer conducted with Mike Mansfield’s friends and colleagues about Mansfield’s personal life and political career as research for Oberdorfer’s biography on Mansfield.
These audio interviews were assigned an oral history collection name, Don Oberdorfer Interviews about Mike Mansfield Oral History Project and given collection number OH 460, to facilitate discovery and access.
Most items in this series are restricted and restrictions are noted at the item level.
Most of the audio in this series was digitized for preservation and access purposes.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| III-1 | Interview with Francis "Frank" Valeo |
August 26, 1998 |
| III-2 | Interview with Francis "Frank" Valeo |
August 26, 1998 |
| III-3 | Interview with Francis "Frank" Valeo |
September 10, 1998 |
| III-4 | Interview with William "Bill" Clark - RESTRICTED |
August 29, 1998 |
| III-5 | Interview with Dan Russel - RESTRICTED Self-recorded reminiscence about Mansfield.
|
September 1, 1998 |
| III-6 | Interview with William "Bill" Sherman - RESTRICTED |
September 16, 1998 |
| III-7 | Interview with William "Bill" Conrad Gibbons - RESTRICTED |
October 15, 1998 |
| III-8 | Interview with George Christian - RESTRICTED |
January 1, 1999 |
| III-9 | Interview with Roy Mylnarchik - RESTRICTED |
January 7, 1999 |
| III-10 | Interview with Walt Rostow - RESTRICTED |
January 13, 1999 |
| III-11 | Interview with Richard Holbrooke - RESTRICTED |
April 20, 1999 |
| III-12 | Interview with Norvill Jones Audio quality very poor so the cassette is not digitized.
|
May 1, 1999 |
| III-13 | Interview with Peggy DeMichele |
July 26, 1999 |
| III-14 | Interview with John Mansfield - RESTRICTED |
September 2, 1999 |
| III-15 | Interview with James "Jim" Lowenstein |
October 1, 1999 |
| III-16 | Interview with John Finney - RESTRICTED |
November 5, 1999 |
| III-17 | Interview with Francis "Frank" Valeo |
November 29, 1999 |
| III-18 | Interview with Francis "Frank" Valeo |
November 29, 1999 |
| III-19 | Interview with Sam Jameson |
January 1, 2000 |
| III-20 | Interview with Justin Bloom - RESTRICTED |
February 4, 2000 |
| III-21 | Interview with Michael Armacost - RESTRICTED |
February 21, 2000 |
| III-22 | Interview with Walter "Fritz" Mondale - RESTRICTED |
March 14, 2000 |
| III-23 | Interview with Bob Strauss - RESTRICTED |
March 27, 2000 |
| III-24 | Interview with Robert "Bob" McNamara - RESTRICTED; Interview with Jack Valenti - RESTRICTED |
October 11, 2000; October 7, 2000 |
| III-25 | Interview with Pat Holt - RESTRICTED |
August 2, 2001 |
| III-26 | Interview with Bobby Baker - RESTRICTED |
December 31, 2001 |
| III-27 | Interview with Bob Brown Audio quality very poor so the cassette is not digitized.
|
March 13, circa 2000 |
| III-28 | Interview with Ray Dockstader |
circa 2000 |
| III-29 | Interview with Michael Armacost - RESTRICTED |
February 7, 2000 |
| III-30 | Interview with Chester Cooper - RESTRICTED This cassette tape contains two separate interviews with unidentified speakers. It isn't clear which speaker is Cooper.
|
November 24, circa 2000 |
| III-31 | Interview with George McGovern |
February 1, 2002 |
| III-32 | Interview with Leslie "Les" Gelb - RESTRICTED This cassette tape also contains an interview the Don Oberdorfer conducted with Nicholas Platt on October 1, 1993.
The interview is not about Mike Mansfield.
|
October 1, 1999 |
| III-33 | Interview with Kazutoshi Hasegawa - RESTRICTED |
November 16, 1998 |
| III-34 | Interview with Fukuchima (first name unknown) - RESTRICTED This cassette tape contains two separate interviews with unidentified speakers. It isn't clear who either of the interviewees are.
It's also not clear if the name written on the tape label is an interviewee or the location of the interview.
|
November 20, 1998 |
| III-35 | Interview with Takako Doi Interviewee speaks Japanese. Audio quality very poor so the cassette is not digitized.
|
December 1, 1998 |
| III-36 | Interview with Richard "Dick" Allen - RESTRICTED |
October 27, 1999 |
| III-37 | Interview with James Auer - RESTRICTED |
November 1, 1999 |
| III-38 | Interview with Salpee Sahagian - RESTRICTED |
November 4, 1999 |
| III-39 | Interview with Kaiku (first name unknown) - RESTRICTED Interviewee speaks Japanese.
|
March 1, 2000 |
| III-40 | Interview with Mike Gravel - RESTRICTED |
circa 2000 |
| III-41 | Interview with Albert Seligmann - RESTRICTED |
circa 2000 |
Series IV: Audio Recordings, 1980-2000 and undatedReturn to Top
This series contains miscellaneous audio recordings related to Oberdorfer’s research for his biography on Mansfield.
Electronic copies of some of the audio are available from the University of Montana's Archives and Special Collections.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| IV-1 | Mike Mansfield speaking to the Takeyama Association |
February 17, 1986 |
| IV-2 | Meeting, possibly in Japan with Mike Mansfield or speaking about Mike Mansfield Most of the audio in Japanese.
|
June 12, 1986 |
| IV-3 | Mike Mansfield's remarks to Drexel Lambert |
November 11, 1986 |
| IV-4 | Mike Mansfield speaking, possibly to the Midwest U.S. Japan Association |
November 17, 1986 |
| IV-5 | Vietnam Dialogue call to Mike Mansfield with Don Oberdorfer and Phil (no last name) in attendance |
June 18, 1998 |
| IV-6 | Funeral mass for Maureen Mansfield |
September 26, 2000 |
| IV-7 | Mike Mansfield interviewed for article about U.S.-Japan cooperative relations |
undated |
| IV-8 | Joint House and Senate administration hearing, Tape 1 of 2 |
March 18, 1999 |
| IV-9 | Joint House and Senate administration hearing, Tape 2 of 2 |
March 18, 1999 |
| IV-10 | Mike Mansfield interviewed by John Needham |
August 13, 1980 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Personal Names
- Mansfield, Mike--1903- Biography
- Mansfield, Mike--1903---Interviews
Form or Genre Terms
- Biographies
- Oral histories--Montana
Titles within the Collection
- Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat
Finding aid prepared by Jennifer
Rusk
2004
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
