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...again, used this year's session to prepare for Election Year 1958-and beyond that, 1960. The Eisenhower and Old Guard branches of the Republican Party were already fighting over the 1960 successorship. Even the individual leaders of the Senate-Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson and California Republican William Knowland-were moving ahead with their own personal plans for the White House in '60. Against such strong political tides, Dwight Eisenhower could make little headway with his theory of the President as a congressional adviser, not a director...
Through the fight, long after G.O.P. Senate Leader William Knowland had thrown in the towel and when even House Republican Leader Joe Martin was considering retreat, Vice President Nixon punched hard for a meaningful bill. The verdict on his efforts was best rendered by his opponents. Just when the Senate was about to pass his watered-down bill, Democrat Johnson arose to attack Nixon for leading "a concerted propaganda campaign" against it. And last week, after the final vote on the civil rights bill had been taken, Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the most influential Southerner of them...
...over but the voting. Late that afternoon Martin, Rayburn, Johnson and Knowland held a joint press conference, announced their agreement on the 45-day, $300 compromise of a compromise of a compromise. With that lineup of congressional leadership behind it, not even the outside chance of a Southern Senate filibuster was likely to stand in the way of a civil rights bill. Washington's most knowing advocates of civil rights legislation thought it would be a good, effective law. Their reasoning: most of the acts denying Negroes in the South the right to vote are performed by men widely...
...George Gallup asked Democrats and Republicans who they favored for their own party nominations. Results: among Democrats. Tennessee's never-hear-die Senator Estes Kefauver (with 29%) led Massachusetts' eager Senator John Kennedy (23%); among Republicans, Vice President Richard Nixon easily outdistanced California's Senator William Knowland (48% to 12%). Last week Pollster Gallup began pairing the top Democrats against the top Republicans, got these answers...
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