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Ever since 1952 there has been uneasy quiet in the state organization. A contest for power in 1956 between the backers of Vice President Richard Nixon and the supporters of Senator William Knowland seemed to be building up. Governor Knight, who never got much help from the old Bill Knowland-Earl Warren alliance, was expected to be for Nixon. As it turned out, Goody was for Goody...
...Then Knowland, who has always considered Dick Nixon an upstart, arrived at the convention and quietly passed the word that he was for Ahmanson. He blocked a move for a secret ballot in the election, and the Nixon bloc caved in. Ahmanson was chosen by acclamation, and thereby Goody Knight took a long step toward control of the California delegation to the 1956 Republican National Convention...
...wanted to be drafted for the new battle. Democratic Senators began ducking into hiding places whenever Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson came into sight. Majority Leader William Knowland found he had almost no names left after he crossed off those of G.O.P. Senators who are openly for or against McCarthy. Knowland and Johnson hoped to get Colorado's Eugene Millikin and Georgia...
Walter George, among the most respected men in the Senate, to serve. Both begged off. Knowland finally named Utah's Arthur Watkins, Kansas' Frank Carlson and South Dakota's Francis Case. Johnson named Colorado's Edwin Johnson, Mississippi's John Stennis and North Carolina's Samuel J. Ervin...
Evidently, this meant that Knowland can recess the Senate when its work is done. The committee will stay in Washington to study the Flanders motion and sift charges against McCarthy. When the committee is ready to report, the Senate can be called back to Washington to vote on the conduct of the junior Senator from Wisconsin...