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David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). A study in oratorical openings, noting how different men begin speeches, including clips of Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck...
...over the TV speech that would break the news to the nation that night. The order went out to round up congressional leaders-wherever they were-and fly them back to Washington. The Air Force brought House Speaker John McCormack from his home in Boston, House Republican Leader Charles Halleck from a pheasant-hunting trip in South Dakota, Senate Minority...
...Kennedy "the head cat of our Government." has a tendency to repeat herself. Her scoops are modest ones, and generally unidentifiable as such without the "exclusive" label that Hearst sometimes attaches to her copy, e.g., a Marianne story last month reporting that key Republicans, specifically Minority Leaders Dirksen and Halleck. had "pledged to support President Kennedy's present policy on Cuba...
Then the House, by an even wider margin (including Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck and his lieutenants), passed the bill designed to strengthen the U.S. for the economic challenges of the years to come...
...every denizen of the U.S. Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...