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...None. President Eisenhower decided on this year's medal before TIME'S Nov. 12 cover appeared, the second time in history that the medal has shown two profiles (the first: Taft and James S. Sherman in 1909). For the resemblance noted by Reader Grady, see cuts...
...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 his second full term, for chairman of the powerful Republican Policy Committee; Bridges for president pro tempore...
...Taft had been one to harbor grudges, there were plenty he could have harbored against Bill Knowland, who had challenged him in the Senate and refused to deal with him for the presidency. But Taft was perfectly aware of Bill Knowland's basic quality. Late on the afternoon of June 9, 1953, Bob Taft, fatally ill, entered Styles Bridges' office, dropped heavily into a chair and said quietly: "I'm going to be away and I've asked Bill to carry on for me. Nobody can push him around...
...Unpushable. Taft was all too right. Nobody could push Bill around and, elected majority leader in his own right after Taft's death, Knowland soon ran into trouble trying to push the unpushable Senate around. In his rush to political power, Knowland had learned how to handle issues-but not men. Senior Republicans began grumbling: "He treats us like kids." Once Knowland called for a night session without consulting Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Johnson rounded up enough Senators to hand Knowland one of the worst indignities that can be inflicted on a majority leader: he adjourned the Senate right...
...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...