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House G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleek, for one, thought that this was less than cricket. Fourteen House Republicans are members of their party's national convention Platform Committee, which starts work in San Francisco on July 6. Those members quite understandably would like to be on hand to shape the platform, and Halleck had been aiming for a July 3-20 House recess. Now he ruefully recalled the help that he and his G.O.P. colleagues had given Johnson on civil rights: "Memories are real short around here...
House Republican Leader Charles Halleek stormed out of the Capitol, kicked the side of his official Cadillac in anger...
...Angeles two dissimilar traveling candidates announced some similar ambitions. Indiana Congressman Charles Halleek admitted he was available as vice-presidential nominee on a Republican ticket with either Nelson Rockefeller or Richard Nixon. But, he added gloomily, "I don't think it's in the cards." And New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had just suffered a blow at home with the defeat of a school-bond proposal, was just as willing to take second place on the Democratic ticket: "Anyone who says he isn't interested would be kidding himself and kidding the public...
...suppose some of this will leak out," growled jowly Congressman Charlie Halleek in the midst of a closed-door battle with other top Indiana Republicans last week. "It always does." What Halleck feared was that the press would get wind of a new, wide-open schism between right and left wings of Indiana's Republican Party. What he did not know was that for two hours of gory infighting in an Indianapolis hotel room, a live microphone on the table had faithfully broadcast almost every feuding word to newsmen clustered around a loudspeaker in a nearby press room...
...just enough to defeat the 90-day extension (by a hairline vote of 178 to 163). Republicans and Southerners had not yet given up. Heading into the final vote, Indiana's Republican Charlie Halleek crowed confidently: "I think the Democratic leaders are a little panicky. All those votes were very, very close...
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