 From this position Humphreys continued his efforts to improve the public relations of Republican members of Congress.He arranged to make wide political use of the popular Republican ex-president by holding highly publicized meetings at Gettysburg with Eisenhower and such GOP stalwarts as Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck.Another innovation was what came to be called "The Ev and Charlie Show" in which the two Republican congressional leaders appeared weekly on television to advertise the Republican stand on national issues and to discredit the Kennedy administration.