Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instead, Knight gave California his own version of Warren liberalism. He proved to be a skilled hand at running the legislature, and, in contrast to the austere, disciplined regime of Warren, he installed a happy, relaxed bipartisan staff (five of his ten top aides are registered Democrats). Last year he openly wooed the labor unions with a promise to veto a proposed right-to-work bill. His courtship won the A.F.L.'s endorsement-to the amazement of the Democrats-and after the 1954 election Goodie kept his promise: the bill was stifled quietly in committee. Wealthy ranchers...
...rainy-day fund," a savings account accumulated from wartime surpluses, and which now amounts to some $70 million. Legislators have eagerly sought to tap the fund for vote-getting largesse. In an effort to save the rainy-day fund, Goodie doggedly proposed added taxes on luxuries. Recently, while Knight was attending a funeral, the assembly passed an amendment that would have drained off $40 million from the rainy-day fund. Next day Goodie sprang to action, summoned his key legislators for a dressing-down. The assembly meekly killed the amendment on a motion to reconsider. It took the legislators about...
Pursuit Is All. As Goodie Knight sees his horizon, there is only one threatening cloud: Richard Nixon. Publicly, the governor and the Vice President are on crisp good terms, but in private, Knight regards Nixon as a political upstart. The coolness between the two began when Dick Nixon returned to California in triumph after the 1952 Chicago convention. Goodie dutifully turned up at the airport to greet him, but when Nixon's supporters pushed Goodie out of camera range, he felt slighted, and huffed back home. The bad blood is still simmering...
Last summer's power struggle at the state convention centered around two candidates for assistant state chairman-one a Knight loyalist, the other a Nixon insurgent. Goodie Knight easily managed (with an able assist from Senator William Knowland) to get his man, Multimillionaire Howard Ahmanson, elected...
...California, a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 1,000,000 voters, there is no such thing as a party machine, and politics are played by ear. Nixon has a small following of his own and so has Knight, but the rank-and-file of voters are not organized in factions. Before next year's convention, Goodie Knight, as governor, will probably be able to pick the California delegates personally; if he does, they will be Knight's pawns. Should Nixon force a showdown for control, Goodie will almost certainly beat him and mire down the Nixon...