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...President's aim was to convince Congress that his Administration will be frugal. As he revealed the big surprises of his speech, he stared straight out at such economy-minded legislators as Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck. The fiscal 1965 budget that Johnson will send to Congress next week, he said slowly and stressing every word, will "call for total expenditures of $97.9 billion-compared to $98.4 billion for the current year, a reduction of more than $500 million. It will call for new obligational authority of $103.8 billion -a reduction...
...conference committee came up with a compromise under which the President would have authority to waive the loan restriction if he deemed it "in the national interest." But House Republicans, under the leadership of Indiana's Charlie Halleck, were dead set against the compromise and, aided by the absence of scores of Democrats who had taken off for Christmas, they defeated it by a vote...
...first it had to go through the Rules Committee-which turned up two shy of a quorum. Halleck offered to produce two Republicans, but only if the Democratic leadership would agree to accept the next floor vote as final and let the House adjourn...
Speaker John McCormack hesitated, insisting that he had to consult the President first. That took three hours-and when he finally told Halleck that the deal had been approved, Halleck snapped: "You are too late. It cannot be done." During the interval, it seemed, one of Halleck's Rules Committee Republicans had taken off for home...
...Democrats were outraged at what they considered to be Halleck's betrayal. Majority Leader Carl Albert charged that the G.O.P. was staging a sitdown strike. A White House aide, with more ardor than accuracy, said the whole affair was "an attempt by the Midwest isolationist wing of the Republican Party, headed by Mr. Halleck, to seize control of the party and impose its will on the foreign policy of the United States." President Johnson delayed his Christmas trip back to Texas, wrote in a memorandum to Speaker McCormack: "It is not difficult to imagine the reaction of the rest...