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Trapped, Joe attacked, but he fought the men who once stood at his side. McCarthy mocked Iowa's Senator Hick-enlooper, ranted at Indiana's Capehart. He sneered at California's Senator Knowland, saying that it should not be the Republican Party's role "to appease, to whine, to whimper." Crimson-faced, Knowland rose on the floor and roared in protest against the charge...
...When Knowland had finished, McCarthy was disgruntled but unchastened. "I think, Bill," he said sadly, "you will regret some of the things you said here today...
Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, in the past a staunch supporter of McCarthy and a frequent foe of Eisenhower's foreign policy, was visibly agitated by the speech. When McCarthy sat down. Bill Knowland stood...
...handed the list to Brownell, Ike made it clear that it was not necessarily binding or exclusive. The list: 1) Richard Nixon, 2) Henry Cabot Lodge, 3) Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado, 4) Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington, 5) New Jersey's Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some 30 top Ikemen. Among those attending: Tom Dewey, Lucius Clay, Arthur Summerfield (then G.O.P. National Chairman), Henry Cabot and John Davis...
...against candidates, a final vote. A number of the candidates were quickly eliminated: Cabot Lodge could not be spared from the looming battle over his Senate seat (which he lost to John Kennedy); Thornton and Langlie were also needed at home; Alfred Driscoll was a fading political light. Bill Knowland, with both the Democratic and Republican nominations in his pocket, had a sure seat in the Senate and was too closely identified with Bob Taft. Illinois' Ev Dirksen, whose name was also mentioned, was too far to the political right...