Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Young Turks (U.S. politics)" in English language version.
Smith: What was the beef against Halleck? Friedersdorf: It's a combination of the age thing and minority status, and Halleck had a drinking problem. That was pretty well known. And then you had a group of Young Turks like Gerald R. Ford and Melvin Laird and Donald Rumsfeld and Bob Griffin, and they were up and coming. It was a generational difference and it was after the '64 election which was such a debacle. We lost a lot of seats in the Goldwater election. The house members felt it was time for Charlie to go.
