Goodwin Knight correspondence with Paul Mason, 1943-1970.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Goodwin Knight correspondence with Paul Mason, 1943-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754865082

Primarily incoming correspondence from Goodwin Knight, with some carbons of outgoing letters from Paul Mason, as well as newsclippings and some draft articles and speeches. The two close friends exchanged views, judgements, strategems and confidences as they fought elements of the right wing of the Republican party (Bill Knowland, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and the John Birch Society among others), at the twilight of the progressive era of the California Republican party. Of particular note are papers that document Nixon's attempt to bribe Knight out of the 1962 race for governor with the offer of a judgeship. Also interesting are Knight's commentaries on personalities and developments in both parties at the national as well as state level as he observed them covering events for his radio and TV broadcasts.

.25 linear foot (1 manuscript box)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8131333

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

John Birch Society.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6941k46 (corporateBody)

American radical right-wing political advocacy group that supports anti-communism, limited government, a Constitutional Republic and personal freedom. From the description of John Birch Society records, 1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 696628690 ...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65c0t4w (person)

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64v77vf (person)

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the...

Republican Party (Calif.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69649kj (corporateBody)

Knight, Goodwin, 1896-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h70t0t (person)

Government official, governor; interviewees are married. From the description of Reminiscences of Goodwin J. Knight and Virginia Knight : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574582 Paul Mason was a leading expert on parliamentary procedure and the author of Mason's Manual. He was Governor Goodwin Knight's legislative secretary and served as Director of Motor Vehicles in his administration. He was, more importantly, Knight...

Mason, Paul, 1898-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx5785 (person)

Knowland, William Fife, 1908-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ws8r8j (person)

William Knowland The Forgotten Leader In 1953, the convergence of unusual circumstances gave the Democrats the plurality of the Senate's membership while the Senate Republicans maintained their majority party status. The situation made it impossible for the new Republican leader to control the legislative agenda. Indeed, Senator William Knowland lamented his ineffectiveness on the Senate floor, "Mr. President, ... I have the responsibilities of being the majority leader in this body withou...