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...magazine said that House Minority Leader Charles Halleck (Ind.) and Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirkson (III.) are conducting "a holding operation pure and simple...
...called Halleck "lethargic intellectually," and added, "he lacks a sense of his historic responsibility as leader of a major party.... The essence of the Halleck leadership is (a) sort of equivocal lip service, of endorsing somewhat the cause of formulating a positive program even while neglecting it or discouraging...
...sooner had Republican National Committee Chairman William Miller proposed that the G.O.P. issue a policy statement to rebut President Kennedy's State of the Union message than the party's congressional floor leaders. Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen and Indiana Representative Charles Halleck, vetoed the idea. That left Dirksen and Halleck, who appear on television weekly in what has come to be known as "The Ev and Charlie Show," as the most visible, audible enunciators of Republican policy in Washington...
...March issue of Advance, entitled "Revise and Dissent," attacks the Republican leadership in Congress for conducting "a holding operation." It is particularly critical of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) and Rep. Charles Halleck...
...acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman, McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high regard for him." Once he called Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck a "hijacker," and stuck his finger into Halleck's jowl for emphasis. But Indiana's Halleck comes from another hard political school, and he understands McCormack. "John McCormack," he says, "always was a worthy and formidable antagonist, who fought hard-and fair...