Word: halleck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried the word that he is going out to Burning Tree to play golf." Finally, the House voted on Dan Reed's motion to recommit. When the roll had been called, it seemed that the protectionists had won, 201 to 200. But Joe Martin, Indiana's Charles Halleck, and Les Arends had too many outstanding political lOUs to let themselves be beaten in a vote that close. New York's Republican Representative Katharine St. George switched her vote to nay. So did Illinois' G.O.P. Representative Harold Velde. Others followed, and the Reed move was rejected...
...spot in the offensive. Ike has not learned to deal with Republicans in Congress as a forceful political strategist. His powers of personal persuasion are strong; his congressional liaison men are shrewd in estimating votes; and his House tacticians, notably Massachusetts' Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck, are loyal and effective. But Ike has not developed the feeling for maneuver that made Teddy Roosevelt a master at getting results in Congress...
...study." Unhelpfully, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley reminded the President that the White House had "fixed up" the domestic watch industry, but had done nothing for Wisconsin cheese. Alarmed, Leverett Saltonstall spluttered that relief for his Massachusetts watchmakers had been long overdue. And Republican House Leader Charley Halleck added that, come what may, peril-point tariff protection is here to stay. After that exchange, fraught with trouble for a liberalized trade policy, Ike and the legislators got along better...
...with an assist from Joe, who told his boys not to argue, just vote. Said Martin: "An umpire just calls a ball a ball. He doesn't stop to explain that it's high and outside or low and inside. That's what you should do." Halleck won his farm-bill gamble, but his driving tactics eventually stirred up some resentment among the hard-pressed troops. "Charlie is holding our feet to the fire too much," carped one G.O.P. Congressman. The resentment converged on the President's health-reinsurance plan. Deciding that the bill...
...help keep the legislative gears well oiled, Charlie Halleck uses "the Clinic," a secluded Capitol office comparable to Democratic Leader (and former Speaker) Sam Rayburn's "Board of Education," where Mister Sam's friends can sip at a bourbon-and-branch-water. Teetotaler Martin rarely visits the Clinic, but there, at the end of a long day, Halleck quenches the thirst of his assistant whips and plans the next day's work...