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...haired Republican Senator John W. Bricker walked into the White House and made his way to Ike's second-floor study to meet with the President and an assortment of Administration brass, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General Herbert Brownell and Senate Majority Leader Bill Knowland. The problem: what to do about the Bricker amendment (TIME, July 13), which has turned into a time-bomb threat to both G.O.P. unity and White House-congressional relations...
Sticking Points. Brownell, Dulles, Knowland & Co. worked hard to get a compromise with the Bricker forces, but inevitably, both sides ran into two basic sticking points...
...legislative precincts were stirring and buzzing like a beehive in spring. By 8 o'clock almost every morning, Republican Senate Leader William Fife Knowland was in the Senate restaurant having California orange juice, poached eggs, politics and legislative plans for breakfast. The six telephones in the office of Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson were beginning to jangle. From one side of Capitol Hill to the other, Topic A was: What kind of session will...
...President now appears to realize that if there is to be leadership, it must come from him. This fact is no reflection upon Senator Knowland, Vice President Nixon, House Speaker Joe Martin and their lieutenants. For a generation, no congressional figure of either party has been able to exercise congressional leadership in the old sense. Martin, Knowland & Co. have no carrot, no stick-except as the President, by arousing public interest in his program, can provide them with carrots and sticks. Significantly, President Eisenhower began the political year 1954 by going to the people with a preview of his program...
California's Bill Knowland, the Senate Majority Leader, rushed in on behalf of the lusty new Far Western industry, assured the Southerners that he thought a 20%-to-30% set-aside too large, and that the whole Eisenhower program was "too wide and [needed] curtailment...