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Leaving nothing to chance, Republican National Committee Chairman Len Hall this week will open a farm-belt campaign office in Chicago. Under Colorado's former Governor Dan Thornton, the office will send squads of campaigners into the Midwestern states to beat the drums for the G.O.P. If they get a chance to use their umbrellas, so much the better...
Your May 28 story on the signing of the Fair Campaign Practices Code by Len Hall and Paul Butler made sprightly reading, but it ignored some important points. Our code is not designed to turn bigots and demagogues to sweet reasonableness but set up a standard against which to measure them. If politicians want to use the code as a club and beat each other with it, swell...
Gulping coffee in the House restaurant early one morning, Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall was summoned to the telephone. Over the wire came a familiar voice: "Len, I've got an idea I want to speak to you about. Come on over." Hall washed out a plane reservation to New York, called off his political engagements there, and trundled away to the White House. He was delighted at having his schedule mixed up: the call from Dwight Eisenhower, who wanted to talk about the campaign, was another proof of the President's vastly increased interest in party politics...
...precinct activity ("What are we doing to get people to come to our precinct meetings?") to campaign gimmicks (last week he even looked interested while examining a squeaking rubber elephant), the President's political preoccupation has increased along with confidence in his health. Morning after morning to Len Hall's desk come handwritten chits with the initials D.E., offering ideas and suggestions on political subjects...
Brought together by the well-meaning Fair Campaign Practices Committee Inc. and its well-meaning chairman, Cincinnati's Mayor Charles P. Taft (brother of the late U.S. Senator Robert Taft), Democrat Paul Butler and Republican Len Hall signed, with telegenic flourishes, a fair-play code: "I shall condemn any dishonest or unethical practice." etc., etc. Then, while Republican Chief Hall stood quietly to one side, Democratic Leader Butler faced the bank of television cameras, reached into his pocket and whipped out a prepared statement. Cried he: "Fraudulent and baseless charges like 'party of treason' and 'traitorous...