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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unbreakable. Selected to lead the California delegation to the Republican National Convention, Knowland was avidly wooed by presidential hopefuls. From the Eisenhower camp came strong hints that the vice-presidential nomination could be his. From the Taft forces (but not from Taft himself) came a direct promise that support for the Ohioan would give Knowland second place on the national ticket. But Knowland and his delegation were pledged to back Earl Warren for President-and Bill Knowland has never broken his word. At Chicago, disturbed by reports that his Senate Colleague Richard Nixon was trying to get the California delegation...
...Nixon fell sobbing in Wheeling, W. Va. when Ike declared his running mate guiltless in the campaign-fund uproar. The elections were barely over when Knowland announced that he was a candidate for majority leader of the 83rd Congress against anybody except Styles Bridges, the Senate's senior Republican and one of Knowland's closest Washington friends. By mid-December, it was obvious that Bob Taft also wanted to be majority leader, and a first-class fight appeared to be shaping up. In the end, a slate was worked out: Taft for majority leader; Knowland, just beginning...
...Senate, Knowland has won the regard of the old Taft loyalists. He publicly urged the Republican national committee to give them responsible assignments during the 1956 campaign. Although he followed his considered judgment of the merits in each case, his votes for the Bricker amendment and against the censure of Joe McCarthy (even the club's pariahs have their rights, reasoned Knowland) further endeared him to the Republican right wing. But there is a wide gulf between Knowland and the Neanderthals-the McCarthys, the Bill Jenners and the "Molly" Malones. The gulf was widened considerably last fall when Knowland...
Time for a Drink. The Senate's close party balance requires a harmonious relationship between the Democratic and Republican leaders. After a cool start, Knowland and Lyndon Johnson have become warm friends. When Lyndon was convalescing from his heart attack, Bill twice weekly wrote long, gossipy letters with news of the Senate and its members. He also assured Johnson that he would work to prevent anyone from taking political advantage of Lyndon's absence...
...Senate term expires Jan. 3, 1959. There he could be on hand for the inevitable day when J. R. Knowland leaves the management of family interests in his hands. There too, he could run for governor on the theory that Senators rarely get presidential nominations.* California's present Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight might have plenty to say about that. Although a Knight-Knowland battle would be a historic political struggle, Knowland is in a strategic position. Goodie Knight and Dick Nixon are longtime feudists. Knowland has maintained cordial relations with both, taken sides only when he thought...