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...terms as Speaker. Then, as last year's session began, Joe Martin's world exploded around him; in a coup by the G.O.P. young guard that shocked him to tears, he was cast out of the minority leadership in favor of Indiana's tough, driving Charlie Halleck. This week, from the obscurity of his back-row seat, Old Joe, 75, evens the score in a brooding, bitter memoir, My First Fifty Years in Politics (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), as told to Robert J. Donovan, Washington chief of the New York Herald Tribune. Martin's book gives little...
Charlie Halleclc: An ambitious rival, Halleck had come to Congress in the first place hell-bent on running for President, Vice President, Speaker, or whatever else opportunity might put in his way. Charlie is always available. I regarded him as neither a popular choice nor a man who could provide the kind of leadership the party needed. I overlooked the diligent activity of lobbyists of the automobile industry, the business organizations and the beef trust, who were scurrying all over town trying to line up votes for Halleck...
Richard Nixon: I had given Nixon many a lift over the years when he was a rising young politician. But the Vice President was careful to do nothing to discourage his own followers in the House from supporting Halleck...
...Pennsylvania's 16 Democrats were for the bill. All of New Jersey's five Democrats were opposed; only two out of New York's 18 Democrats followed the farmers. Even a few Southerners joined non-farm forces; only nine farm boys defected from Minority Leader Charlie Halleck's disciplined Republican ranks. The farm Democrats had badly fumbled a major domestic issue. Since there was now virtually no prospect of a farm bill this session, they might pay for their mistake at the polls in the wavering Midwest. They had also ignored a warning sounded fortnight before...
...seat of the late "Wild Bill" Langer. The contestants-Republican Governor John E. Davis and Democratic Congressman Quentin Burdick-were all but lost in the throng of their supporting casts. Jack Kennedy and Stu Symington got out of town as Nixon arrived, and Nelson Rockefeller, House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck and Senate Campaign Director Barry Goldwater have all taken their turns on the stump...