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Freshman Bill Knowland cut little ice in his first few months in the Senate, but he cut plenty in his 1946 senatorial campaign. To the astonishment of everybody, including California's Republicans, he soundly defeated the Democrats' popular Will Rogers...
...reckoned without Knowland's determination. Disarmingly, Knowland argued that the Senate ought to be willing to reduce the debt by 1%-or $2.6 billion...
...logic-and the votes-on his side. In the end even Taft capitulated. The Knowland amendment passed...
Governor Warren of California appointed Bill Knowland to the Senate in 1945 to pay off an old political debt to his influential father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland. Young Knowland had had an unspectacular career as state assemblyman and senator, had done better as executive committee chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was an assistant publisher of the Tribune, the father of three, and an indefatigable joiner and organizer of charity drives. Drafted into the Army in 1942, he had risen to the rank of major...
That, apparently, was the lift Bill Knowland needed. He sailed into Washington with the enthusiasm of a man determined to stay. He was an attentive, fair-minded and active member of the Atomic Energy Committee. He startled the party sages who expected him merely to sit tight, learn the ropes and follow the leaders. He had always had an unusual head for facts & figures. Now he had shown that he also had parliamentary skill...