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Bundy, for example, is "quite aware that he could complicate matters" by originating policy--a State Department function--while working in a White House office, one Faculty man recently back from Washington explained. But until two days ago, Kennedy also had on his White House staff Richard N. Goodwin, who was actively formulating policy for Latin America...
California's usually reliable Mervin Field poll indicated last week that Dick Nixon would wallop former Governor Goodwin J. Knight in the 1962 Republican gubernatorial primary 77% to 12%, and that both Nixon and Knight could beat incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Brown in the election-Nixon by 48% to 38% and Knight...
With seven months still left before the California Republican primary, the gubernatorial contest between Richard Nixon and Goodwin Knight had already achieved the social level of a Juke-Kallikak picnic...
Lawyer Nixon's decision opened the way for a series of savage political struggles. There are already three other announced candidates for the Republican gubernatorial primary, including ebullient Goodwin J. Knight, who held the office from 1953 until 1959. No sooner had Nixon announced his candidacy than Knight showed just what kind of campaign fight it will be. He charged that a Nixon aide had offered him "any job in the State of California, 'Chief Justice or anything you want, if you won't run against Dick.' " Said Nixon of the Knight accusation: "False and libelous...
...California's former (1953-59) Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight has most of the things that make men content: a handsome wife, a pleasant home in Los Angeles, robust good health, and a comfortable income that includes an annual $16,000 state pension and an $850-a-week job as a television commentator. But Goodie Knight is restless: he wants to be Governor again...