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Indeed, the demand for change was in the wind throughout the party. A meeting of House Republicans scheduled for this week could well result in the displacement of House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, 64, a symbol of conservatism and aging leadership...
...find three, not two, kinds of politicians competing for leadership and control. There are the Gubernatorial Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Scranton (men like Senator Kuchel and Congressman Lindsay also belong in this group). Then there are the Congressional and legislative leaders like Everett Dirksen, Charlie Halleck, and Robert Taft Jr. and Sr. Finally there is the Goldwater group, including Barry himself, Senator Tower and a host of cold-eyed ideologues who do not hold public office...
...need to take over the committee as a power base, will probably pressure Burch to quit soon after the first of the year. Some state organizations, too, must be wrested from the clutches of Goldwater men. And in Congress, symbols of the right wing like House Minority Leader Charles Halleck of Indiana and Minority Whip Les Arends of Illinois may find themselves threatened by young moderates bent on revolt. Whatever the mechanics of change to come, one thing is certain: Barry Goldwater and his type of conservatism have had their moment...
...busier than a man with one hoe and two rattlesnakes." But the overwhelming majority of the people who know her give Lady Bird exceedingly high marks for personal charm and attractiveness. "I've never talked to anyone who didn't like her," says Blanche Halleck, wife of the House Republican leader. Lindy Boggs, wife of Louisiana Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs, and a longtime Lady Bird chum, is hard put to make her friend's virtues seem real. "I make her sound like a combination of Elsie Dinsmore and the Little Colonel," says Mrs. Boggs, "but this...
...Halleck had a stronger weapon than words: the civil rights bill still needed Republican votes to get it out of the House Rules Committee so that it could be whooped through on the House floor. Halleck publicly pledged that those G.O.P. votes would not be forthcoming if Johnson persisted in his stand. At week's end it seemed highly likely that Halleck and his colleagues would get to San Francisco on time-and that the anti-poverty bill would have to wait...