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...Gallup poll showed last week that Nixon is favored for the G.O.P. nomination by a whopping 64% of Republican voters, as against 48% last November, and by 40% of independents, against 24% in November. Runner-up among Republicans: California's Senator William Knowland, with 9%. Among independents: Harold Stassen...
Behind the new action-now program was a growing impatience by such venturesome Cabinet members as Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Attorney General Bill Rogers and Vice President Nixon with the pacing of antirecession moves. In his letter to Knowland and Martin, the President hit out at Democrats, without calling any actual names, for the "sudden upsurge of pump-priming schemes" put forward by persons lacking "faith in the inherent vitality of our free economy and in the American as an individual." But all in all, the new policy marked a notable shift...
...effective leader must sense the mood of the Congress," says Johnson. "He doesn't see it, smell it, hear it-he senses it." Because Lyndon Johnson understands its members, he can sense the mood of the Senate as have few men before him. One time Republican Leader Bill Knowland announced to newsmen that a bill, which he supported and Johnson opposed, was going to win by nine votes. Later, Johnson leaned across the aisle to whisper to Knowland: "Bill, we don't need to have a roll call on this. I've got you beat by three...
...differences with Republican Leader Bill Knowland (as minority leader in 1953, Johnson adjourned the Senate right out from under Knowland's nose, the worst insult that can befall a majority leader), but the two have come to work together in cooperation and mutual respect. One night during the recent debate on postal-rate increases, Frank Carlson, in charge of the bill for the Republican Administration, had an important appointment in home-state Kansas. He asked Johnson if the Senate could meet early and leave early so that he could catch his plane. Johnson agreed. "Thanks," said Frank Carlson...
...giving him some tourist tips for his coming trip to the U.S.S.R.-"I will give you my assurance that you will be welcome everywhere." He began to touch bases on Capitol Hill, calling one by one upon Democrats Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Sam Rayburn, Republicans William F. Knowland and Joe Martin, even dropping in one day last week to see Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres, who had written to ask if it would be all right to show some G.O.P. ladies around the Soviet embassy. Answer: Sure. Says Menshikov about the Soviet embassy: "Even schoolchildren come...