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...Knowing Knowland...
...former combat historian in Europe in World War II, I feel that you should be more specific about Senator Knowland's wartime assignment [Jan. 14] than "public information and military government officer." During the Normandy days he was good enough to share his limited office space with several of us from First Army; he was combat historian with the Advanced Section, Communications Zone...
...your statement that Senator Knowland "has since come a long way." Mr. Knowland, like Senator Dirksen, who, incidentally, recently received a pat on the back from, of all people, the New York Times, has come a long way by compromising most of his principles as a conservative Republican for what he thinks will be political gain...
...into the East Room and took their places beside Dick and Pat Nixon. Ike and Dick both wore short morning coats and striped trousers; Mamie wore a black taffeta dress, and Pat a two-piece green wool suit. At 10:26 a nonfamily guest, California's Senator Bill Knowland, stepped forward and administered the vice-presidential oath to Dick Nixon, who swore fealty to the Constitution with his hand resting upon a Bible that had been in his family for five generations. Pat and the Nixon children watched solemnly-eight-year-old Julie sporting a black eye from...
...late February, and then, perhaps, in amended form. Despite the shrills of such as Oregon's Morse ("I'm so frightened I'm almost speechless"), the military request would get by with a healthy but not lopsided majority; the economic request-about which Minority Leader Bill Knowland, among others, was hesitant-might be in trouble...