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...towards Democrats, McCarthy seemed to be luring the party leaders back to their old hope that he might be a good, useful party sharpshooter after all. When Vermont's Ralph Flanders introduced a motion in the Senate to remove McCarthy from committee chairmanships, Senate Majority Leader Bill Knowland told him it was a "mistake," pleading that it might "completely block" the legislative program. A top G.O.P. adviser stated the Administration's cautious new policy: "We'll watch everything McCarthy does, and when he's reasonable and behaving like a Senator, we'll cooperate...
...week only one-vote-getting Attorney General Pat Brown, the only Democrat holding a major state office -was able to do so. U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel and Governor Goodwin J. Knight, Republicans, failed to match the double primary victories of Governor Earl Warren in 1946 and U.S. Senator William Knowland...
...Pearson, Adlai Stevenson confessed that G.O.P. foreign policy is a perplexing thing to him, often leaves him mulling over who's really running the State Department. "We sometimes wonder who the Secretary of State might be," he said. "I was going to say Secretary of State (William F.) Knowland, Secretary of State (Richard) Nixon, Secretary of State (John Foster) Dulles, leaving some state of confusion. That is what I call foreign policy by the platoon system...
...obvious to some Republican Senators (not including the four on the committee) that this game would disrupt the functioning of the U.S. Government. At week's end Senate Republican Leader Knowland defended President Eisenhower's stand and called McCarthy's position "dangerous and doubtful." New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith went further. "Beyond belief" was Smith's label for McCarthy's contention that all federal employees had a duty to report to him any information that, in the employee's judgment, indicated illegality or impropriety in the Executive Branch. Smith also attacked McCarthy...
...harshest critic of Republican foreign policy is California's Republican William Knowland, who is also the Senate majority leader. The most powerful opponents of liberalized foreign trade...