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...powerful senior Republicans, particularly in the Senate, still run things to suit their own conveniences. The Old Guard Republican leaders do not seem to be trying to take over the party. Rather, they snipe or obstruct without any apparent sense of party responsibility or direction. Minority Leader Bill Knowland, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Ohio's John Bricker and Colorado's Eugene Millikin virtually ignore the President as a leader of Congress. He makes no effort to punish them for so doing...
Several American Presidents have undertaken military action in defense of the rights and interests of American citizens abroad, thus forming a precedent of sorts for Senator Knowland's demands that the U.S. use military pressure to obtain the release of its prisoners in Red China. In 1854, a United States ship bombarded a Nicaraguan port after some Nicaraguans had manhandled an American consul. The Supreme Court subsequently asserted it to be the Executive's duty to act at his own discretion to protect American citizens. During the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, President McKinley sent 5,000 American soldier...
...overwhelming congressional endorsement of President Eisenhower's historic message proved, among other things, that men of quite divergent attitudes found in it evidences to support their stoutly held positions. Senator Knowland could see a line drawn and a determination to stand firm in Asia. Premier Chou En-lai denounced it loudly as "a barefaced war cry" and a "brazen threat of agression." But to Britain's Sir Anthony Eden, who has made a fine art of picking out what he finds most useful in others' policies, the key Eisenhower phrases were: "We would welcome action...
...There had been talk among President Eisenhower's most faithful Senate followers about putting up a slate to contest the control of the G.O.P. old-liners. In this scheme, Connecticut's Senator Prescott Bush would have been drafted to run for minority leader against Incumbent Leader William Knowland. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith wrote letters to his party colleagues suggesting that a mighty good choice for Republican policy chairman would be Senator H. Alexander Smith...
...this time, the Eisenhower followers had come to realize that they would only get bloodied up if they made a fight, and the insurrection folded. Then Bill Knowland passed the word that he 1) would faithfully support the Administration at this session, and 2) therefore wished that Ikeman Frank Carlson would place him in nomination for minority leader. Taking Knowland at his word, Carlson made the nomination. The G.O.P. conference selected Knowland as minority leader, Styles Bridges as policy committee chairman, Eugene Millikin as caucus chairman, and Lev Saltonstall as whip-all without opposition. Still to be chosen...