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...swinging doors. The man leaped to his feet, began greeting each and every one with booming-voiced gladness, in the manner of one who truly loves his club and its members-not for what they may be individually, but simply because they are members of the club. William Fife Knowland, 48, Republican from California, minority leader of the Senate, was back in his element, pleased with his lot, and eager to come to grips with the conflicts facing a party that has just triumphantly won the White House, and lost control of the Congress...
Already Bill Knowland had met with fellow Republican congressional leaders at a nine-hour White House session, lunched with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, attended a bipartisan legislative conference at the White House, worked at reshuffling the Senate's Republican high command, helped draft a unanimous-consent agreement under which the Senate would debate a change in its rules, and assisted in writing a resolution paving the way for President Eisenhower's Middle East message to a joint session of Congress. All this was part of Knowland's job as leader of a Senate minority that...
...leader of the G.O.P. Senate forces, Bill Knowland's job is to transmit the plans and attitudes of a majority President to the minority party in the Senate, to seize the initiative, where possible, in a chamber balanced at 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. As the most spotlighted Republican on Capitol Hill, Knowland's responsibility (which he shares with House Minority Leader Joe Martin) is to see to it that the Republican congressional record will contribute to Republican congressional victory in a 1958 that looks all too shaky. Moreover, if the U.S. is to get value received...
Qualities of Leadership. The U.S. Senate respects only those who respect it; no man has a deeper feeling for the Senate than Knowland. A party leader, by definition, must be a party man; Knowland has been a Republican from birth, and his attachment is to the party itself, not to any of its factions. "I consider myself," he says, putting first things first, "a member of the Republican team, and the President certainly would be the leader of that team...
...minority leader of the U.S. Senate admits only that he has not yet made up his mind about 1958. Indeed, he has enough cause for concern with events already at hand. For the session of the 85th Congress that began last week is the critical test of Knowland's leadership. And the record written by the 85th may decide once and for all the ultimate political future of William Fife Knowland...