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...President's desk for their weekly White House legislative conference last week when Dwight Eisenhower issued a warning. The warning: go slow on bills designed to cure the recession with heavy spending; the Democrats are trying to spend too much too soon. Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland thought he knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported...
...Illinois' grey-maned, smooth-talking Everett McKinley ("The Wizard of Ooze") Dirksen, 61, is generally expected to become Senate Republican leader when William Fife Knowland goes off at session's end to run for governor of California. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who always before made it his practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen...
...political treaty of the year: Goodie agreed to travel to Washington this week, receive the blessings of the White House, and announce that "for the good of the Republican Party" he would run for the U.S. Senate next year, leaving his governor's chair open for Senator William Fife Knowland...
...expected, California's Senator William Fife Knowland last week said: "I shall be a candidate for governor of California in 1958." He pledged himself to serve out his "term or terms," but when asked if he might still be a presidential candidate in 1960, he replied: "No one has a crystal ball for 1960-or 1964." Vice President Richard Nixon's supporters immediately prepared to throw support to Knowland in his fight for the G.O.P. nomination against Governor Goodwin J. Knight, and the influential, conservative Los Angeles Times, already committed to Nixon for President in 1960, hinted that...
Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland was outspokenly annoyed at the appointment, and so were a lot of other Capitol Hill Republican leaders. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn protested to the White House. New Mexico Republicans simmered...