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...hound's-tooth polisher, Republican John J. Williams, led a parade of five Republican Senators provisionally suggesting an Adams resignation. The other four: Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Michigan's Charles Potter, Maryland's Glenn Beall, Minnesota's Ed Thye. California's Bill Knowland tagged along, intoning that "the facts should be completely disclosed...
Though he is supposed to be serving as Senate spokesman for the Administration and the Republican Party, California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland has an apparently incurable habit of throwing his burly body in the way of Administration proposals. He persisted in his ways even after he became a half-lame duck by deciding to resign from the Senate and run for Governor of California next November. And his poor showing in California's popularity-poll primaries last fortnight failed to subdue him. Hours after he got back to Washington he blocked the Administration on the issue...
Unappeased. Knowland, Bridges and Dirksen charged down on the President again last week, brandished their threat and demanded full retreat. Ike gave way, authorized Knowland to announce that the Administration still approved the amendment's principle but was opposed to tacking it on to the aid bill. When Jack Kennedy heard the news, he paled with anger, but even angrier were the Eisenhower Republicans who had loyally backed the amendment. Snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken: "We people who stick our necks out for the Administration can't count...
...that is why Dwight Eisenhower's firm and forthright approval was needed. Cried George Aiken, his eyes glistening with tears: "I am amazed by the statement that the President does not favor the proposal. Why did he let the Secretary of State favor it all this time?" Bill Knowland slumped grim-faced in his chair; Styles Bridges smiled wryly. Nobody answered. Nobody could...
Next day the Senate passed a $3.7 billion foreign aid authorization-only $229 million less than the President requested. Knowland, Bridges and Dirksen said aye, but it remained to be seen what they would do when the time came to vote on actual foreign aid appropriations...