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...believe that Jerry Ford is the most likely man. And last week Ford was busy trying to organize a G.O.P. coalition of his own-one embracing liberals, moderates and conservatives in a drive to elect Ford as House minority leader, a post now held by Indiana's Charles Halleck...
...plotted strategy in secret meetings, worked hard to round up votes. At week's end they thought they could count the 71 needed to elect Ford by secret ballot in a party caucus on Jan. 4. But they conceded that many of these votes were shaky-especially if Halleck fights all out to stay...
...Halleck was doing just that. Grim and determined, he called a news conference, declared: "I expect to continue as Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, and will do all that I properly and reasonably can to that end." He personally and privately reminded Republican colleagues of precisely what each owed him for past favors...
Cozy Clubbers. To put together a majority against Halleck, Jerry Ford will have to win support from a wide variety of Republicans, ranging from deep-dyed conservatives who happen to have a grudge against Charlie, to members of the relatively liberal Wednesday Club (so called because the group usually meets on Wednesday afternoons). The Wednesday Clubbers so far are being cozy about supporting Ford in hopes of winning pledges from him to give them preferred committee assignments when and if he beats Halleck...
This, of course, is exactly the sort of politics that Charlie Halleck also understands. But whatever dickering Jerry Ford has to do he apparently has already done. When he announced his candidacy, he said that he would have the votes...