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...Another factor impels Nixon to take on a heavy load of campaign duties. As Vice-President, he has no direct control or influence over state party organizations. Such control is very important in any national political convention, as Senator Knowland, currently the strongest threat to Nixon’s presidential hopes, has realized by running for the California governorship this fall. The most important method by which Nixon can build up personal obligations and loyalty among Republican state committees is to accept numerous campaign speaking dates in the various states. But a heavy speech schedule lures him into the dangers...
...since 1954 has the Republican Party controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House, Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts was Speaker of the House and California Sen. William F. Knowland was Senate Majority Leader...
...California's most influential papers during the 62 years it belonged to the family of the late Republican Senate Leader William F. Knowland, the Tribune slipped along with its city in the 1960s and 1970s. Maynard broadened sports and business coverage and gave the paper visibility with four "blockbuster" reports of at least ten pages each on gritty urban problems: jobs, schools, drugs and murder...
...hesitant to make a third attempt. But he put his name forward at the last minute and edged out Robert Griffin of Michigan by one vote. In 1980 the G.O.P. won a three-seat Senate majority and Baker became the first Republican majority leader since California's William Knowland...
California casualties swoop down dead with more speed and color and frequency than any other state's: Upton Sinclair, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Goodwin Knight, William Knowland, Pierre Salinger, and of course, Richard Nixon in 1962. It was Jerry Brown's father, cheerful stumbly Pat Brown who beat Nixon for the governorship that year, only to lose to Ronald Reagan the next time around. There is no security in California politics-Pat Brown says that he "rubbed his hands in glee" at the thought of running against the "fading, aging actor." Perhaps that is why the young Brown, with...