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Though Texas Senator John Tower has been his front man, in recent weeks Senator Norris Cotton of New Hampshire and ex-California Senator William Knowland have boarded his bandwagon. In Ohio, Industrialist George Humphrey, Ike's Treasury Secretary, is drumming up business support. Canny Lawyer Herbert Brownell, Ike's Attorney General, has been turning up lately at Goldwater rallies. And enough money is rolling into Goldwater coffers to impress even a Rockefeller. "Hell," said a Chicago Republican after a draft-Goldwater meeting, "someone said something about money, and within ten minutes we had $375,000 pledged...
Once upon a time there were four nationally known Republican politicians in California. One of them, Governor Earl Warren, was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. in 1953, and then there were three. William F. Knowland, Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, resigned to run for Governor in 1958; he lost, and then there were two. In that same election, Goodwin Knight, who had succeeded Warren as Governor, was defeated for the Senate, leaving just one. That was Richard Nixon, who, after coming within a hairbreadth of the presidency, ran for Governor last year, lost, and recently moved...
...shadow of the giants stood U.S. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (pronounced Kee-kul), whom Governor Warren had appointed in 1952 to fill out Nixon's unexpired Senate term. An index of Kuchel's power was the makeup of the California delegation to the 1956 Republican Convention: Nixon, Knowland and Knight divided up the delegation, each taking 23 seats. The one remaining seat went to Kuchel...
Much as Dulles and Nixon and Charlie Wilson bored and irritated Eisenhower, Hughes says he was provoked to real anger and disgust only by the clowns and rogues who populated Congress: Knowland, Bricker, Dirksen, Milliken, McCarthy. On the subject of Mr. Bricker and his Amendment, Eisenhower waxed especially splenetic: at a Cabinet meeting in early April, 1953, "the President, listening to the latest accounts of trying to appease Bricker, cried in anguish, 'I'm so sick of this I could scream. The whole damn thing is senseless and plain damaging to the prestige of the United States. We talk about...
...Richard Nixon's political estate could hardly be lower. California's Field poll, setting up possible Republican candidates against Democratic Senator Clair Engle next year, got these trial-run results: Engle led ex-Senator William Knowland 46% to 42%, San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher 48% to 34%, Nixon...