Word: knowland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets support for bills simply because he "wants" it. The Inner Club will often kill a measure because the Club wasn't consulted. An Inner Club man is a Senate man, rather than a party man or a President's man. That is why he will not protest Senator Knowland's attacks on Eisenhower's Asian policy. These attacks emphasize the Senate's independence...
Living with Bill Knowland may be like living with a whirlwind but, as their son Joe, an Oakland Tribune deskman, remarks: "Mother knows how to handle him." She handles by helping. In his earliest California campaigns she worked night after night addressing campaign literature and copyreading speeches. When Bill went into the Army, Helen took over his job, but not his title, assisting J.R. at the Tribune. Bill rarely spares more than 15 minutes apiece for visiting California constituents (he eases them out of the office by rising, walking to his window, remarking on the beauty of the view...
...Bill Knowland is a tireless public speaker, but strains painfully in his attempts at casual conversation, even with his family (the Knowlands have two daughters, one son). But Helen says: "But we know he loves us ... It's Billy's way, and it's all right with me." Bill once reprimanded her for jaywalking on the grounds that the wife of a lawmaker should avoid even the slightest infraction of law. But Helen merely says, half facetiously: "His high principles can be almost a nuisance at times." She encourages him in his only real hobby: pasting items...
...Critical Test. Despite Knowland's devotion to the Senate, it does not fully satisfy his sense of destiny. When nobody was certain whether the 1955 heart attack would keep Ike from running, Knowland began making presidential noises. Recalls young Joe Knowland (who is devoted to his father but somewhat awestruck): "The hardest thing I have to do is carry on a conversation with my father. Everything has to be just right or he won't talk. But he was so happy when he was getting ready to run for President that he was bubbling. He could talk about...
...Some Knowland associates believe that his political destiny, as well as the responsibilities of dynasty, may take him back to California after his 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...