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...superb" candidate. He protested that this was no presidential endorsement for Nixon ("they're all good men"), but he gave notably shorter shrift to others. Said he of retired General Alfred Gruenther: "I don't know him well." And of California's Senator William Knowland and Hardy Perennial Harold Stassen: "I haven't seen them campaigning...
...treaty of the year: Goodie agreed to travel to Washington this week, receive the blessings of the White House, and announce that "for the good of the Republican Party" he would run for the U.S. Senate next year, leaving his governor's chair open for Senator William Fife Knowland...
Goodie Knight's decision came after weeks of vowing that he would fight Knowland to the death. But Knight, a careful calculator of political odds, was alarmed from the outset by the unsmiling, formidable presence of Bill Knowland in the race against him. Recent polls, showing Knowland far ahead, sent Knight to the edge of withdrawal. Pressure from powerful fellow Republicans did the rest...
Behind the Times. Most of the pressure came from Publisher Norman Chandler of the GOPolitically mighty Los Angeles Times. Fearing a Knight-Knowland battle that could wreck California Republicanism, Chandler sent Goodie three urgent pleas to get out of the gubernatorial race, at the same time promised him support for the Senate. The first came about a month ago. The last was delivered in person by Chandler's wife Buff. Said she last week: "Goodie and I are old friends. I told him I felt he couldn't win. If that influenced him, I don't know...
...office has denied that any pressure has been exerted to force him to switch his candidacy to the Senate. But Knowland, a sort of Slenderella bulldog with a look of petrified integrity, wants to be governor, because it is one step closer to the White House in 1960. Knowland is a humorless man with a mission and a method, and the backing of party professionals in the Golden State...