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Twenty minutes before the bell signaled the convening of the Senate, ailing Bob Taft, supporting himself on crutches, entered the Senate chamber and swung heavily down the center aisle to his front-row seat. Acting Majority Leader William Knowland was there, briefing a cluster of reporters on the day's schedule, so Taft seated himself in Bill Langer's chair, beside Knowland, and propped his crutches against the desk. He looked pale and drawn, and his collar seemed too big. As an attendant shooed the press off the floor, Taft leaned over and began to whisper in Knowland...
...doctors prescribed deep X rays and cortisone, put him on crutches, insisted that he keep his weight off the hip bone. They also insisted that he unburden himself of most of the weighty chores that go with the job of majority leader. For that reason Taft had personally selected Knowland to handle the day-to-day routine. He would continue to handle high policy matters himself, and would attend White House meetings insofar as his treatments would permit...
General Regret. There was sadness in the Senate as the news gradually got around. In G.O.P. quarters there was also mild irritation that Taft had handpicked Knowland, thus filling a top policy job without consulting other senior senators. After lunch, making his way through the corridors on his way to his Capitol office, Taft was stopped by colleagues, who wanted to shake his hand and wish him well. For all he had the same message: "I'll be back next session." To some he said it two or three times, as if determined to make it come true. Late...
...Senate will miss the steady hand of Taft. Around the Capitol there is a common saying: "Things don't go right when Bob isn't here." For Bill Knowland, the new assignment is a major challenge. At 44 he is still a stripling as Senators go, both in years and experience, though he is generally regarded as a comer. Knowland's principal task: to steer the Senate through the remaining weeks of the session, and deliver the "must" legislation (mostly appropriations, which are in the capable hands of Styles Bridges) along the course already charted...
...other Democrat had paid much attention, but Johnson began buttonholing, conferring, cajoling. To put over their plan, the Republicans had to get a two-thirds vote to suspend the rules. When voting time came, Johnson leaned across the center aisle to the G.O.P. floor leader, California's Bill Knowland, and said: "You're licked, Bill." He was right. The vote...