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...composed, the Foreign Relations Committee consists of eight Republicans (including chairman Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin) and seven Democrats. On the Republican side are semi-reactionaries Taft of Ohio and Hicken-looper of lowa, moderates Knowland of California and Langer of North Dakota, semi-liberals Smith of New Jersey and Ferguson of Michigan, and in a category all his own, Tobey of New Hampshire, an enigmatic character in the political spectrum. Chairman Wiley is decidedly as internationalist. On the other side of the table are Democrats Green of Rhode Island. Fulbright of Arkansas, Sparkman of Alabama, Gillette of Iowa, Humphrey...
...once seamed a more likely prospect than Taft, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, became president pro tempore, a mostly honorary post which he could claim by virtue of his top seniority (16 years) among Republican Senators. California's middle-of-the-road William Fife Knowland succeeded Taft as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. When Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall indicated that he wanted to continue as assistant floor leader (whip), Taft got Michigan's Homer Ferguson to stop eying the post, and Saltonstall, an early Eisenhower supporter, stepped in as Taft's assistant...
...Senators Taft and Knowland and the rest of the Republican policy makers decided that "this was not the time" to revise the filibuster rule. Aside from independent Morse of Oregon, only five Republicans broke ranks: Ives of New York, Duff of Pennsylvania, Tobey of New Hampshire, Hendricksen of New Jersey, and Governor Warren's replacement for Nixon, Kuchel of California...
...Senator Knowland's assertion that Eisenhower merely feels that "Senate rules are for the Senate to devide" lacks the ring of truth. The issue is clearly not the rights of Senators, but the rights of Negroes. This is a political question in the highest sense: a question of social policy...
...Commodore Hotel for a long lunch with Ike. Emerging, he told reporters: "If Senator Taft wants the leadership, I believe the majority of the Senate would feel that he would be an excellent leader, and probably entitled to it." From Washington, Taft issued a statement: both Bridges and Knowland assured him that they did not want the job, he said, so "I have decided that I shall be a candidate...