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...California, riding the crest of the Eisenhower wave and backed by Nixon, Knowland and Knight, amiable, conscientious Senator Tom Kuchel barely squeaked through in the fight to keep his Republican Senate seat from falling into the hands of flamboyant young (40) Democratic State Senator Richard Richards...
...advantage over most House candidates in her race against Democratic Incumbent Harley Staggers, 49. A Washington socialite with a West Virginia address, Mrs. Elkins has only to pick up her telephone to bring into the district such leading Republicans as Vice President Nixon, Seriate Republican Leader William Knowland and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell...
...reply, Kuchel whose political patrons include such big names as Chief Justice Earl Warren and Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, has merely pointed to his record as a hardworking, honest public servant (state assemblyman state controller, U.S. Senator). If California voters decide on the basis of talk, Dick Richards has a good chance. If they decide on performance, Nice Guy Tommy Kuchel will go back to Washington...
...efforts to make it a forward-looking political force, has continued to cling to a philosophy of the past. The inner power structure of the party, particularly in its close identification with the Vice President, remains dominated by the Old Guard. The leaders of the Republican party are William Knowland and Joseph Martin, men whose fondness for the Eisenhower program seems to spring more from practicality than from clear approval. Jacob Javits, Paul Hoffman, Arthur Larsen, and even the President are not the effective policy makers who determine the record of an Administration or a Congress. The powers...
...health, and the Constitution's prohibition of a third term all combine to force him into the role, not of a moulder of party policy, but of a popular, but passive mouthpiece. Already in the present campaign, his so-called "truth squads," led by Joe Martin and William Knowland, give more of a clue to how new the Grand Old Party has become than all of Eisenhower's commendable phrases put together...