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...Foster Dulles and Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. the pressures of Israel v. the Arabs were piling up menacingly. On Israel's behalf, public pressures were spreading through Congress all the way up through Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Fife Knowland to the White House door. Ike had come back from Georgia to press his step-by-step program. His next move: talk it out with top Senators and Representatives in secret session beginning the next...
Display of Discipline. Oddly enough, the killing off of "authorized" came as a relief to Minority Leader William Fife Knowland. Also troubled by the constitutional issue, Republican Knowland had wrestled the pros and cons for days after the resolution was first introduced, had decided, out of loyalty to Ike and the G.O.P., to support the President's wording. Backed up by New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Knowland called committee Republicans to his office, urged them to side with Ike in what had turned into a partisan fight. When it came to voting last week, the Republicans...
...when the Democrats pushed through the Mansfield amendment, Knowland and Bridges telephoned Ike's headquarters in Thomasville, Ga. to advise acceptance of the change. An all-out push to restore the original wording, they argued, would inevitably bring on a damaging congressional brawl. Unenthusiastically Ike said O.K., issued a statement that the Senate text seemed "intended and designed to accomplish the purposes outlined by the President." Probable result: the Democratic version will pass both houses with the near unanimity that the President fervently wants...
...unanimous vote by the Democratic Policy Committee in the Senate against sanctions. Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican leader, and other members of his party already have expressed opposition to sanctions...
...Knowland has a long way to go, reported the Gallup poll this week. Asked whether they would "personally prefer" Dick Nixon or Bill Knowland as the G.O.P. presidential nominee in 1960, Republican voters replied: Nixon 63%, Knowland 23%, don't know 14%. But even more indicative: of Republican voters polled, only 2% said they did not know Nixon, 28% said they did not know Knowland...