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...term, when Franklin Roosevelt's Pennsylvania coattails were even longer than Lyndon Johnson's 20 years later. From 1954 to 1958, he was the pivotal vote for the liberals on the House Rules Committee, a distinction which did not endear him to ex-minority leader Charles Halleck. In 1958, he defeated ex-governor George M. Leader in the Senate race, and in 1964 was re-elected over Miss Genevieve Blatt by 70,000 votes, while President Johnson was carrying the state by almost a million and a half votes...
...Whether Albert will have to count consistently on a few Republicans to augment his majority remains to be seen. At any rate, the G.O.P. minority in the House was undergoing upheaval too. Last month Michigan's Gerald Ford (see following story) had challenged the floor leadership of Charlie Halleck-on the grounds that old Charlie just did not fit the forward-looking image the party needed. Backing Ford was a group of rebels, including Wisconsin's Mel Laird, chairman of the G.O.P. Convention's Platform Committee at San Francisco, who went after the chairmanship of the Republican...
...been through adversity before," growled Charles Halleck, "but I've never had to run in a beauty contest." It was not in any beauty contest that he was defeated as House minority leader, despite the obvious differences between Indiana's jowly Halleck, 64, and Michigan's rugged Gerald Rudolph Ford, 51, a onetime college all-star football player. It was a fight between Halleck's long-entrenched, static Republican style and a new, activist, articulate trend in the G.O.P. symbolized by Jerry Ford...
...style party leadership. It was as a "constructive conservative" and strong Eisenhower supporter that in 1959 Ford helped engineer the removal of Massachusetts' venerable but ineffectual Joe Martin Jr., who had been G.O.P. leader for 20 years. The man who replaced Martin, ironically enough, was Charlie Halleck...
True to Form. In such a close fight, the outcome could hinge on the action of any cohesive block of Congressmen. Well aware of that, Manhattan's John Lindsay called a meeting of a group of Republican House liberal moderates who consider both Halleck and Ford too conservative, but presumably could swing a deal to support either in exchange for a bigger voice in party councils. Only ten members showed up, however-and, true to form, they could not agree on what to do about the Ford-Halleck contest. That left the matter just where it had been...