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Show HI HO, AQUALANTES 17 3 In a conversation at the National Press Club bar, a California newspaper correspondent had dubbed Know- land "the Senator from Formosa." Knowland's pre- occupation with foreign issues, especially those involving Nationalist China, made the road of California officials and representatives a rough one. In the few conferences that water and power leaders from Southern California were able to arrange with the senator, he appeared to be gazing far beyond California shores. The only real commitment he made was that he would vote against the crsp when it came to the Senate floor. If he made any attempt to line up votes against the project, the activity remained a deep secret. There was hardly any inconsistency in what Knowland did in Washington about the crsp and what he said about it in the Upper Basin political meetings. Utah cheered Knowland's expressions, and read into them severe criticism of his own state for its fight against the project. "The Senator has grown," said the Salt Lake Tribune, and praised his statesmanship.187 One nippy fall morning, the vice-president and his political campaign contingent had swept into Greeley, Colorado, at a speed considerably greater than the legal limit. Obviously irked by Democratic jibes about the Republicans' phony reclamation program, Nixon told an enthusiastic audience, estimated at five thousand, that both President Eisenhower and he stood squarely behind the Upper Colorado project. ". . . men of good will," said Nixon, "who are interested in develop- ment of resources of all western states" could solve the Colorado River controversy.188 Then Nixon rushed on to Albuquerque to oppose the reelection campaign of Senator Anderson, one of the fathers of the project. |
