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...from expert in finance. These may seem like unusual qualifications for the newest member of the five-man Securities and Exchange Commission, but last week Hamer Harold Budge got the job. President Johnson appointed him, said SEC sources, partly as a political favor to House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, the judge's longtime golfing crony. (The judge calls Halleck "Pop," while Halleck calls him "Son.") He replaces Jack M. Whitney II as the second Republican member on the commission. Idaho Republicans consider Budge "a top hand," and he will have plenty of opportunity to prove...
Time was when top officers of national political conventions were picked because of their position of integral power within the party structure. For example, the permanent chairman has often been the party leader in the U.S. House of Representatives-Democrat Sam Rayburn or Republicans Joe Martin and Charlie Halleck. But such senior party citizens have a tendency toward bald heads, bulb noses, or gravel voices-and none of these come over well on television. The fashion nowadays is to select younger, better-looking men to project the party's image. Thus, the Republican National Committee last week named Oregon...
Tomfoolery. Because of the party-line stance taken by the Republicans under the leadership of Indiana's Charlie Halleck, the bill's diehard Democratic opponents knew they were fighting a lost cause. They therefore spent the last hours of debate engaging in tomfoolery. For example, Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee and leader of the Southern Democratic forces, offered an amendment that would ban discrimination by reason of gender as well as race. "This bill is so imperfect," said he, "what harm will this little amendment...
They were confronted by a coalition of non-Dixie Democrats and Republicans headed by Minority Leader Charles Halleck and Ohio's William McCulloch, ranking G.O.P. member of the Judiciary Committee. Moreover, the Johnson Administration was making an all-out effort on behalf of the bill. President Johnson himself demanded that he be informed, name by name, of the votes on amendments; members who seemed to be straying from the straight Administration line could expect to hear from the White House pronto. Three Justice Department lawyers stood on the sidelines, ready to provide replies to opposition arguments. The liberal Democratic...
...budget, and a deficit of $4.9 billion. He said so in his State of the Union message three weeks ago. But, having already heard the punch line, Congress was anxious to hear the rest of the story. Just how was Lyndon going to do it? House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck thought he had the answer. Snipped he: "With mirrors...