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John R. Thomson '57, HRYC President, said that Senator Knowland of California and Senator Morse of Oregon have tentatively agreed to preside at the mock Congress...
...event Ike does not seek reelection, the HYRC official said the Republicans' list of possible nomination candidates will include Vice President Nixon, Senator Knowland, Chief Justice Warren, Governor William Stratton of Ill., Senator James Duff of Penn., Governor Theodore McKeldon of Md., and Governor Christian Herter '15 of Mass...
While the names of Nixon and Warren came first in most speculation, many other names were cropping up. Among them: Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, 65; former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 53; Secretary of State Dulles, 67; Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, 47; Presidential Assistant (for Disarmament) Harold Stassen, 48; Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter, 60. But all of the talking this week was being done by journalists and just plain voters. It would take Republican leaders quite a while to become accustomed to their new and unhappy-but by no means hopeless-situation...
Senators, led by New Jersey's Clifford Case (but not including Minority Leader William Knowland), issued a joint statement applauding the plan. From his Bethesda hospital bed Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was quick to send a ringing endorsement. "The President's proposal," he said, "is the daring, imaginative stroke for which a war-weary world has been waiting. It will test the good faith of the Communists and separate the warmongers from the peacemakers. The American people yearn for peace-peace that will maintain their traditional freedoms . . . This proposal is our pledge of sincerity and good faith...
Then McCarthy tried to withdraw his resolution. Johnson and Knowland forced the resolution to a vote, and McCarthy lost, 77 to 4. Aside from Joe, the only remaining adherents of McCarthywasm were Indiana's Jenner, Nevada's Malone and North Dakota's Langer...