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Giant-Killer. For Reagan, who is far ahead of Christopher in polls among Republican voters, the Governor had only mild contempt. Brown observed that in his last two races he had defeated "the giants," William Knowland and Richard Nixon, and that now "the Republican Party is not running its strongest candidate." Though he lightly twitted Reagan for lack of experience in public office and for being a Goldwater Republican, Brown concentrated on his own record. He claims credit for doubling the capacity of the state's higher-education system, improving the water supply and recreational facilities, providing welfare measures...
After that failure, most Republican candidates adopted a more conservative strategy, best articulated nationally by Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, and best represented in California by Senators William F. Knowland and Richard M. Nixon. Nixon's 1950 campaign exemplifies this new strategy. Nixon took the usual conservative Republican line on economic matters, but he deliberately emphasized so-called "style," that is, non-economic, issues. In 1950 that meant, above all, the issue of Communist subversion. Nixon never tired of calling his opponent soft on communism, and apparently the electorate believed him. He won by more than one million votes...
...immediate cause, of course, was Knowland's incredible hubris. The Senator thought that he would have to be Governor to run for President, so he forced Governor Knight to run for the Senate and they both lost. Knowland used the old conservative strategy, but he underplayed the "Communist conspiracy" issue and, in a recession year, emphasized his economic conservatism by vigorously backing a state right-to-work law. Knowland got what he deserved; he lost by over a million votes...
...Right in California is capable of winning. It dominates a major party, has popular candidates and the potential to develop vote-winning issues (next time: something on Berkeley?). One can only hope that Governor Pat Brown, who has already saved us from would-be Presidents Knowland and Nixon, will once again rally his bickering forces and, bumbling, make it three...
...order must be preserved" contend the authorities (Mulford, Brown Knowland, McAteer, the newspapers, the Administration, etc., etc.) But are law and order really civilization's ultimate virtues-- or are freedom and justice...