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Said a Republican member of the Select Committee after Knowland announced his decision...
...Knowland himself who last Aug 2 made the motion to establish a committee to consider charges against McCarthy. He was not a lawyer, he said then, and he was unwilling to vote on censure until an able, honest committee of lawyers had made recommendations...
...Knowland who selected the Republican members of the Watkins committee-much against their will. On Aug. 5 he told the Senate that he so trusted the committee members that he would be willing to stand trial for his life before them...
...members of the committee, drafted by Leader Knowland, started their task with the implicit understanding that Knowland would stand behind them and would help protect them against the inevitable attacks from McCarthy...
...Mene, Mene, Tekel . . ." But Knowland's move came as no surprise to at least one Senator: Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. No sooner had Knowland sat down than Johnson pulled from his desk drawer a prepared reply. The words McCarthy had used in describing the Watkins committee, said Johnson, would be "much more fittingly inscribed on the wall of a men's room." Bill Knowland flushed red and scowled furiously...