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...veto of the Act just before the last election, over two-thirds of the House and Senate, voted to over-ride. And among those who voted to pass the Act were many Democratic Senators who now control important posts--Johnson, George, Fulbright, Byrd, Eastland--as well as both Knowland and Bridges. If the President puts his full authority behind the changes, however, Congress should accept some, even if not all, the proposals. In the past when the President has fully utilized his popularity--on such issues as Reciprocal Trade and the Bricker Amendment--he has generally...
California's Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight is friendly toward California's Republican Senator William Knowland, heartily dislikes Vice President Richard Nixon, also of California. But Goodie Knight is a political realist. Last week he said he believed Nixon would be a stronger candidate for President than Knowland...
...when some newspaper somewhere in the country did not carry a picture of the Senator in one of another of his expressionless poses. In 1955, McCarthy dropped off page one of the Times almost altogether, often to an uncomfortable position at the tail-end of a story on Senator Knowland or Vice-President Nixon...
...three years ago. An Eisenhower decision not to seek re-election would remove McCarthy's most formidable antagonist within the G.O.P. and would presumably give the right wing a greater voice in party policy. Yet the right wing has a more stable and respected leader in Senator Knowland, and McCarthy might still find himself well to the outside, still looking...
...abilities and endurance permit," he promises, "I shall see to it that this country does not die without the people of this country being given a chance to save it." But there are other Cassandras besides McCarthy crying out in the land, and it is likely that Senator Knowland, for one, would be a greater beneficiary of widespread public disillusionment with "the spirit of Geneva." In politics, as in boxing, the heavyweights supposedly never come back. Yet it was an exciting brawl while it lasted. And the men who came not to praise McCarthy, but to bury him, have been...