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...place was the unadorned, ink-stained President's office in Gettysburg College's Glatfelter Hall. Seated in black leather chairs in a semicircle were seven top Republican congressional leaders headed by Big Bill Knowland, the Senate Minority Leader, and stormy-browed Joe Martin, the G.O.P. leader of the House. Facing them from behind a wooden, felt-topped desk was Dwight Eisenhower, ruddy, bright-eyed, and looking better than he has for weeks. Ostensible purpose of the meeting: resumption of Ike's weekly conferences with the G.O.P.'s congressional leadership...
...Bill Knowland was booming his way down a list of 14 legislative items that were considered "priority." When the talk turned to the imperiled foreign-aid program, Knowland paused to let the President review the difficulties as he saw them. Then, without warning, Ike said quietly: "I feel very deeply about this, and I intend to campaign very vigorously and hard on this issue before the country this fall...
...Shouldn't I Run?" Fourteen respectful eyes widened abruptly. Then Knowland's face lighted up. Said he, harking back to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty's grinning hint (TIME, July 16) that Ike was once again in a political frame of mind: "That's much better, than trying to interpret Jim Hagerty's smile." Ike laughed, then bared the heart of the matter in three brief sentences. "Why shouldn't I run?" he asked. "Last February 29 I surveyed all the reasons pro and con when I announced my decision. I'm in much...
...campaigners. A Beverly Hills attorney with a fine talent for astute political management, Chotiner has long been a power in West Coast politics, played key roles in the successful past campaigns of such prominent California Republicans as Vice President Richard Nixon, ex-Governor Earl Warren, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland. But a Senate subcommittee's investigation into the services he performed for an assortment of clients with U.S. Government problems brought him under heavy political fire (TIME, May 14). In answer to a newsman's query, G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall said that the party has no plans...
...Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snyder told newsmen he "wouldn't be surprised" if all the Joint Chiefs accepted a Red invitation. Diplomatically, this was a gaffe, because an invitation had not even been issued. But was it a hint? Next day Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, who can take a hint as well as the Russians, warned that if this ended in inviting Bulganin and Khrushchev to the White House, the American people would not stand...