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...Administration pushed through a resolution aimed at "liberalizing" the powerful House Rules Committee. But if that move had any visible effect, it was only to push conservative Southerners, led by Rules Chairman Howard Smith of Virginia, into closer coalition with the Republican minority under Indiana's Charles Halleck...
J.F.K. Report (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The New Frontier, discussed by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Senators Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen, Representatives John McCormack and Charles Halleck and news commentators...
...loyal and effective party regular, he won the regard of House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, and it was Halleck who, early last year, tapped Miller to head the House Republican campaign committee. Miller delivered, and the G.O.P. took 20 new House seats. Miller wants to improve that showing next year. Says he: "If we don't make gains at the local, state and congressional levels in 1962, then the 1964 presidential nomination won't be worth a damn...
...Texan Wright Patman, floor manager for the bill, hit at the opposition's weak spot: a nay vote would mean a decision against helping the economically depressed. "If you vote against it," he warned, "there will be no depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people to death." Raged Missouri's Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee: "What...
Thus Congress handed President Kennedy his first major legislative defeat. That done. Charlie Halleck's Republicans and the hard-shell Democrats figured it would be easier to rally future opposition to such equally contentious Kennedy proposals as the education bill and medical aid to the aged. John Kennedy's honeymoon with the 87th Congress had been short and something less than sweet...