University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
The University of Montana--Missoula
Missoula, MT 59812
406-243-2053
http://www.lib.umt.edu/asc
library.archives@umontana.edu
Mss
590
Oberdorfer,
Don B. 1931-2015
Don Oberdorfer's
Mansfield Biography Research Papers
1918-2003
14.0 linear feet and 72 audiocassette tapes
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).
Materials are primarily in
English. Some
materials are in Japanese
Biographical Note
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Don Oberdorfer's Mansfield
Biography Research Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike
Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula.
Gift of Don Oberdorfer, 2004, 2005 and 2009.
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.
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.
Princeton University holds a collection of Don Oberdorfer’s papers
related to another of his publications. The University of Montana's Archives holds the Mike Mansfield Papers (Mss 065).
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Mansfield,
Mike--1903- Biography
Mansfield,
Mike--1903---Interviews
Oral
histories--Montana
Biographies
Montana
Oral
Histories
International Relations
Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat
Series I
Research Files
1918-2003
14.0 linear foot
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.
This series maintains Oberdofer’s original arrangement of the files.
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
28/7
Oberdorfer's raw transcripts of the interviews
he conducted with Mike Mansfield (OH 391)
1998-2001
Series II
Audio Interviews with Mansfield
1998-2001
21 audio cassettes
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.
This series is organized numerically by cassette number.
Electronic copies of the audio are available from the University of Montana's Archives and Special Collections
as oral history project OH 391.
OH 391-002
Interview with Mike Mansfield
July 24, 1998
OH 391-003
Interview with Mike Mansfield
August 28, 1998
OH 391-004
Interview with Mike Mansfield
September 10, 1998
OH 391-005
Interview with Mike Mansfield
October 8, 1998
OH 391-006
Interview with Mike Mansfield
October 29, 1998
OH 391-007
Interview with Mike Mansfield
April 9, 1999
OH 391-008
Interview with Mike Mansfield
July 24, 1999
OH 391-009
Interview with Mike Mansfield
August 18, 1999
OH 391-010
Interview with Mike Mansfield
September 9, 1999
OH 391-011
Interview with Mike Mansfield
October 20, 1999
OH 391-012
Interview with Mike Mansfield
October 23, 1999
OH 391-013
Interview with Mike Mansfield
November 26, 1999
OH 391-014
Interview with Mike Mansfield
January 27, 2000
OH 391-015
Interview with Mike Mansfield
February 18, 2000
OH 391-016
Interview with Mike Mansfield
April 20, 2000
OH 391-017
Interview with Mike Mansfield
May 11, 2000
OH 391-018
Interview with Mike Mansfield
July 21, 2000
OH 391-019
Interview with Mike Mansfield
October 10, 2000
OH 391-020
Interview with Mike Mansfield
November 10, 2000
OH 391-021
Interview with Mike Mansfield
June 1, 2001
OH 391-022
Interview with Mike Mansfield
July 20, 2001
Series III
Audio Interviews with Mansfield's Colleagues
1998-2001
41 audio cassettes
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.
This series is organized numerically by cassette number.
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.
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
September 1, 1998
Self-recorded reminiscence about Mansfield.
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
May 1, 1999
Audio quality very poor so the cassette is not digitized.
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
March 13, circa 2000
Audio quality very poor so the cassette is not digitized.
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
November 24, circa 2000
This cassette tape contains two separate interviews with unidentified speakers. It isn't clear which speaker is Cooper.
III-31
Interview with George McGovern
February 1, 2002
III-32
Interview with Leslie "Les" Gelb - RESTRICTED
October 1, 1999
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.
III-33
Interview with Kazutoshi Hasegawa - RESTRICTED
November 16, 1998
III-34
Interview with Fukuchima (first name unknown) - RESTRICTED
November 20, 1998
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.
III-35
Interview with Takako Doi
December 1, 1998
Interviewee speaks Japanese. Audio quality very poor so the cassette is not digitized.
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
March 1, 2000
Interviewee speaks Japanese.
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 undated
10 audio cassettes
This series contains miscellaneous audio recordings
related to Oberdorfer’s research for his biography on Mansfield.
This series is organized numerically by cassette number.
Electronic copies of some of the audio are available from the University of Montana's Archives and Special Collections.
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
June 12, 1986
Most of the audio in Japanese.
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