Word: hallecker
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...power in Washington is absolute. Not so many years ago, when House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, known as the "gut fighter," became an embarrassment, some young bucks got together and tossed him out. Jerry Ford took...
...latest model from the Gates fiction factory, Angel of Light, is an anthology of the author's excesses. The flaccid, irritating soap opera is jerry-built around the hatreds of a wealthy family in Washington, D.C. A senior bureaucrat, Maurice Halleck, head of the "Commission for the Ministry of Justice," has died, apparently by suicide, after seeming to confess to bribe taking. Halleck's two nearly grown children, drug-frazzled Kirsten and lard-witted Owen, vow to wreak vengeance on their gorgeous mother Isabel, and their father's best friend from boyhood, whom they take...
...reader is trapped for lengthy incoherent chapters in the minds of Owen and his sister, specimens who would have a psychiatrist looking at his watch well before the end of each 50-minute hour. The only breaks come in equally long and profitless flashbacks to the boyhood of Maurice Halleck. The writing here is of the "It was a dark and stormy night" variety that Snoopy, the Peanuts dog, concocts whenever he tries to write his own novel. Halleck and his friend take a canoe trip, and he is nearly drowned in "the deafening roar" of the wild Loughrea. This...
...Rumsfeld was brash and inexperienced when he came here," recalls a Democratic colleague. "But he immediately started growing, and he never stopped. He was a first-rate Congressman." In 1965 Rumsfeld helped lead the "young Turks" who deposed Indiana's Charles Halleck as House Minority Leader. In his place they installed Ford. Says a Democratic Congressman hyperbolically: "Rumsfeld held the dagger that Ford plunged into Halleck's back...
...prospects, Melvin Laird is probably Ford's sentimental favorite for Vice President. Not only have the two been close friends for 20 years but they also teamed up in 1965 in the intraparty coup against Charles A. Halleck that installed Ford as Republican leader in the House. But Laird's nomination might be viewed as cronyism. Moreover, both Laird and Ford are much alike ideologically. Nonetheless, the betting is that Laird will play a key role in the Ford Administration, either in some formal White House role or as the President's foremost political adviser...