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Last week the reciprocal trade bill's overwhelming victory in the House brightened its Senate prospects, and Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson announced his "wholehearted support." Then ponderous Bill Knowland spoke up. He favored extension for only three years, not five, he proclaimed, adding that he might oppose other features of the House bill too. Rumbled the New York Times: "The so-called minority leader and spokesman for the Republican Party in the Senate is once again demonstrating how ridiculous it is that he holds that august post in the party's hierarchy...
...plainer words, it was high time for Bill Knowland either to quit acting like an independent running for office on a private platform-or else to resign as minority leader...
...people of this country. I am not interested in a campaign issue for Republicans." But by a remarkably providential coincidence. Mitchell's surprise attack fitted in perfectly with a decision reached at the White House earlier in the week at the urging of Goldwater. California's Bill Knowland. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other right-wing Republicans. With the McClellan committee's sordid revelations still vivid in the public mind, argued Goldwater & Co., it was good election-year politics to assault the Kennedy-Ives bill and try to pin a soft-on-labor...
Firecrackers popped last week in the heat generated by the bad Republican showing in California's popularity-poll primaries (TIME, June 16). Items: ¶ Republican Gubernatorial Candidate William F. Knowland announced that he would give his "wholehearted and loyal support" to the state Republican ticket in the November elections. ¶ Virtually every G.O.P. candidate-including Senatorial Candidate Goodwin J. Knight, the incumbent Governor-indicated polite but firm refusal to accept Big Bill's kindness. They prefer going it alone, since they think that Knowland's unpopular right-to-work program is hurting party chances, and furthermore, that...
...week's end hapless Bill Knowland flew into San Jose for a two-day meeting with 200 campaign workers, rolled up his sleeves for a detailed rehash of past failures and a grim, fight-to-the-finish discussion aimed at reorganizing scattered elements into a new working team...