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Stumpy Charles Abraham Halleck strolled into the Speaker's lobby of the House of Representatives wearing the sanguine smile of an Indian brave preparing to scalp a New Frontiersman. "I think we always had the votes to beat this one." said the Republican House minority leader. "And I think we still do.'' No matter how often the House Democrats counted the noses, no matter how hard they pleaded, cajoled and threatened, they could not come up with the magic number needed to pass President Kennedy's must bill to boost the $1 minimum wage...
...matters of principle, there was plenty of confusion. Senate Minority Leader Ev Dirksen noted that the Kennedy Administration had failed to propose a civil rights bill, promised to "unfurl" one of his own. Morton agreed that it would be a smart move, but House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck and Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater demurred. Said Goldwater, who has a greater following in the South than any other Republican: "We have literally bent over backwards to attract the Negro vote, but they don't vote for us." Lamented one G.O.P. leader: "We've got to find...
...Democratic housing bill died in the Rules Committee, and so did a bill to ease restrictions on picketing of construction sites. Kennedy Democrats hoped to pass a politically profitable batch of welfare legislation at the post-convention session of Congress, but Judge Smith's Rules Committee helped Charlie Halleck's Republicans turn the postscript into a fiasco that spoiled the Democratic hopes and dented John F. Kennedy's image of leadership at the start of his tough campaign for the presidency...
Custom-Designed Pressure. Then gut-fighting Charlie Halleck swung into battle behind Judge Smith, made opposition to the Rayburn plan an official Republican stand-a position that made good tactical sense but grated on some Republicans because it aligned the G.O.P. with Southern Democrats. That confronted Rayburn with the possibility of a messy and painful defeat on the floor: he needed Republican votes to win, and Halleck's thrust forced several Republicans who would otherwise have voted for Rayburn into the Smith camp...
...would be too drunk or too hung over to go to the Hill and vote. (The plot failed: Smith men saw to it that the man got to the Capitol to cast his no.) Cracking down on liberal Republicans who had promised to vote for the Rayburn plan, Charlie Halleck at one point grabbed a Congressman by the coat lapels and literally shook him. The man staggered away cursing Halleck, but he was scared enough to switch his vote from Rayburn to Smith. No Republican had any doubts that Charlie Halleck would retaliate against Republicans who voted for the Rayburn...