California Triangle

Involved in California’s 1958 gubernatorial fight are Knowland, Knight, Nixon—and the California delegation to the Republican Convention of 1960

To the political sophisticate, Senator William Knowland’s month-long ceremonial of barnstorming California before announcing for Governor may well have had its faint odeur de jambon. But it triggered a chain of political convolutions—involving the nation even more than California—that may be convoluting for a decade or more.