Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest honor which can come to a citizen. I'm not going to lie to the people, and I'm not going to be coy." In the political sawdust of California, Goodie Knight is not the only or the leading presidential possibility. Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator William Knowland both have ambitions for the highest office too. The Senator, preoccupied with Asian policy and sometimes out of step with the Eisenhower Administration, is-for the moment-the least favorite son. At his age (46) Bill Knowland can afford to wait until 1960 or 1964. Nixon...
...known personally by more local politicians and by more average voters than Earl Warren, Bill Knowland and Dick Nixon put together. "Whenever two Californians get together," says Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren glumly, "up pops Goodie Knight." "Wholesome Insincerity." When the gubernatorial DC-3, The Grissly, is set down on a California runway, Goodie can always count on a welcoming swarm of local Republicans waiting eagerly on the apron. Goodie has a remarkable memory for names, delivered with a personal greeting, a quip and a hefty whack on the back...
...LIFE photographer accompanied the happy couple, and after 24 hours Goodie began to spend most of his time on the ship-to-shore telephone, receiving bulletins on a developing power struggle between Knight's men and supporters of Nixon at the state G.O.P. convention...
Pursuit Is All. As Goodie Knight sees his horizon, there is only one threatening cloud: Richard Nixon. Publicly, the governor and the Vice President are on crisp good terms, but in private, Knight regards Nixon as a political upstart. The coolness between the two began when Dick Nixon returned to California in triumph after the 1952 Chicago convention. Goodie dutifully turned up at the airport to greet him, but when Nixon's supporters pushed Goodie out of camera range, he felt slighted, and huffed back home. The bad blood is still simmering...
Confusion in the Everglades Sir: Re your April 25 Fisherman Nixon item: TIME went overboard on that 18-ft. alligator story. There aren't any 18-ft. alligators anywhere, anytime, in Florida. So good little Republican boys and traitorous little Democratic boys are in no danger of being swallowed...