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Aquarius. The Chinese will shoot down another U.S. plane and Senator Knowland will declare war, secede from the Union, and issue currency. Secretary Dulles will coin a phrase, "passive retaliation," and President Eisenhower will express displeasure but will hope, over four networks, that it was just a mistake. Meanwhile, closer to home, Kirkland House will lose all 16 of its maids in a steam tunnel...
...Republicans to give a yes answer to another question: Can the U.S. Government function when the President's party is split? In fashioning next year's domestic program for Congress, the possibilities for friction had seemed greater than at the foreign-policy meeting. But Senate Leader William Knowland intoned that the talks had been "constructive and harmonious." Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin reported that the whole affair was "like the cooing of doves...
...Senator Knowland is a grey horse of another color . . . Upon Senator Taft's death he bluntly announced that he was a candidate for the leadership against all comers. Despite the thought that the Administration lacked enthusiasm for him, Senator Knowland was elected by his colleagues. And he has performed his duties, not following in the footsteps of Alben Barkley, but in the tradition of the Senate. Moreover, it is ex tremely doubtful that the Administration could defeat him if it tried...
Californians will take many a year to explain Nixon and Knowland to their children...
...Nassau, B.W.I., California's vacationing Bill Knowland threw McCarthy down hard. "This Administration has not been and in my judgment will not be in the future soft on the issue of Communism," he said. Arizona's Barry Goldwater said that McCarthy's charges against Ike were "not true." Even Maryland's John Marshall Butler, whose 1950 election victory is widely credited to McCarthy, deserted his idol, calling the attack "most unfortunate and uncalled for." Of the 22 Senators who had voted for McCarthy a few days before, only Idaho's Herman Welker publicly took...