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...strange sight. He had put on weight in the Army (the harder he works, the more he eats and the rounder he gets), and now, with no time to waste on clothes-buying, he tried to stuff himself back into his prewar civvies. For months, until Helen Knowland finally took charge and ordered him some new suits, Washington held its breath in anticipation of the occasion when California's young Republican Senator William Fife Knowland would literally bust his britches...
...Knowland was a britches-buster in other ways to the august U.S. Senate. In a forum where youngsters are supposed to be seen but not heard, Knowland set out by tackling-and tumbling-none other than Mr. Republican, Ohio's Bob Taft, on an issue of budget policy. In an institution where seniority is the road to prominence, Knowland leaped to the forefront before his first full term was half over. He became the Senate's leading Republican spokesman on the most acrimonious issue of the day: U.S. policy toward Asia. How it happened is typical of Bill...
...winter of 1945-46, Knowland made his first trip to the Far East with a Senate committee investigating the disposal of surplus war properties. In Tokyo he met General Douglas MacArthur and was enormously impressed, but not overwhelmed (Knowland is a hard man to overwhelm). He was fascinated by Asia's political and economic problems and, once back in Washington, began studying them. After hours and weeks and months of concentrated self-education, he came to an unshakable conviction: in its preoccupation with Europe, the U.S. was disastrously neglecting Asia...
...Unbreakable. Selected to lead the California delegation to the Republican National Convention, Knowland was avidly wooed by presidential hopefuls. From the Eisenhower camp came strong hints that the vice-presidential nomination could be his. From the Taft forces (but not from Taft himself) came a direct promise that support for the Ohioan would give Knowland second place on the national ticket. But Knowland and his delegation were pledged to back Earl Warren for President-and Bill Knowland has never broken his word. At Chicago, disturbed by reports that his Senate Colleague Richard Nixon was trying to get the California delegation...
With his own re-election just a formality, Knowland rode the 1952 Eisenhower campaign train all fall, and it was on Bill's broad shoulder that Nixon fell sobbing in Wheeling, W. Va. when Ike declared his running mate guiltless in the campaign-fund uproar. The elections were barely over when Knowland announced that he was a candidate for majority leader of the 83rd Congress against anybody except Styles Bridges, the Senate's senior Republican and one of Knowland's closest Washington friends. By mid-December, it was obvious that Bob Taft also wanted to be majority...