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...sooner had the President waved his last wave and left Capitol Hill than the comments began to click off the news tickers. Congress would examine the proposals "carefully and thoroughly," promised Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, scheduling hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Minority Leader William Knowland remarked that he would "support a policy that would prevent Soviet aggression," but "the details will, of course, have to be worked out by the legislative arm." South Carolina's Olin Johnston was flatly against the whole plan. "I am supporting the President," drawled Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman...
...chance that Lausche would make good on a vague campaign implication to vote with the G.O.P. on organization (TIME. Oct. 22), Republican Leader William Knowland had called New York's new Senator Jacob Javits to Washington for the opening. Uneager to take his Senate seat until a reconvening New York assembly outfoxes Governor Averell Harriman and elects a Republican to succeed him as New York's Attorney General, Javits was not sworn in. But he kept within three minutes' hailing distance, on the chance that Lausche's vote and his own would throw the Senate into...
...integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose, offered New Hampshire's Styles Bridges instead, called for yeas and nays on his amendment-the time-honored way of finding out whether the Senate will organize as Republican or Democratic...
...Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats feared civil rights less than they did a rule change. As the fight readied, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Bill Knowland got together with opposing forces, set up a schedule that provided three hours for each side to make a record for the folks back home. Everybody knew-or thought he knew-how it would...
...Opinion. "If you want to change the rule," Clint Anderson chided his colleagues, "do it now." Bill Knowland, fearing that delays would leave the Senate with no rules to work under, claimed that the upper house might be "plunged into a jungle." Retorted Anderson: "The House [which adopts its rules at each new session] walked through this jungle yesterday and in 30 seconds emerged intact." But, argued New York's Irving Ives, "the point is whether the Senate shall have the power to act if a reasonable number of its members believe that action ... is necessary." Not so, said...