Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Prickling both men last week was Knight's charge that a Nixon emissary had offered him any state job he wanted if he would only get out of the race (TIME, Oct. 6). Cried Nixon: "I categorically deny the charge, and I am willing to state this under oath and with my hand on the Bible." Bawled Knight: "I've taken over 500 oaths in my political career. I'll swear on a Bible to this...
...Tell Dick . . ." Last week, standing on a red-white-and-blue-bannered platform in his Los Angeles campaign headquarters, Goodie Knight named names and dates. Waving in his right hand a paper chit, Knight said it was a receipt for a $6.21 telephone call made on the morning of Sept. 8 from his room No. 108 in Sacramento's El Dorado Hotel. The call was to Los Angeles Banker J. Howard Edgerton, who had earlier tried and failed to reach Goodie by phone. According to Knight, the conversation went like this...
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...
...tireless campaigner, whose state party outnumbers the Republicans in registration by more than 1,000,000. Not until private polls told him that he could trounce Brown did Nixon actually decide to run for Governor. But Brown would go down hard. As soon as he heard of Republican Knight's charges against Republican Nixon, Governor Brown picked up the cry: "If Knight's charges are true, it's the most shocking political scandal in the history of the state. If Richard Nixon did offer to sell the highest judicial office in California for a political favor...