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...rights bill, presently held up by the House Rules Committee under the reactionary chairmanship of Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard Smith. Even as a petition for bypassing the Rules Committee was being prepared, the President one morning drove past the Spring Valley home of House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, took him to the White House for breakfast. The meal included what Halleck called "thick bacon-the kind he knew a fellow from Indiana would like." Halleck came away glowing about how Johnson had "shown me things I never saw there before." He also began putting the pressure on Smith...
Next day, House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck and G.O.P. members of the Judiciary Committee held a strategy session in the office of Minority Whip Leslie Arends. They were discussing MacGregor's "unity bill" proposal when a telephone call for Halleck came from the President. Halleck asked his colleagues, "What shall I tell him?" Said MacGregor: "We've got the leverage on this thing now and I don't think we'll get anywhere unless we use it." The Republicans quickly came to a decision, and Halleck delivered it to President Kennedy. In effect...
...Rules Committee, Mr. Kennedy is indebted to two liberal Southerners, who can be expected to oppose the rights measure. Thus, unless the votes of two committee Republicans can be won over, the bill may die in the hearing room, or at least be seriously delayed again. Consider that Rep. Halleck thinks some of the sections of the subcommittee's bill "would be most difficult for me to support," consider that Sen. Dirksen finds portions of even the weaker bill unpalatable, and it is easy to see why the President wants to tone the strong bill down...
...come today, tomorrow, next month or next year. This was made starkly clear as the leaders of civil rights organizations paid morning calls on Capitol Hill's most powerful citizens-Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker John McCormack, Senate and House Republican Leaders Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck. It was made just as starkly clear after the march, when the civil rights leaders went to the White House to see President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...Administration was thoroughly alarmed, in a last-ditch effort even enlisted the help of Dwight Eisenhower, who called Halleck to urge support of the bill...