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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the boat when he failed to comply with the rule of the land. G: So he had on that committee, I guess, [Estes] Kefauver, Lester Hunt, and John Stennis from the Democrats. And then from the Republicans, Styles Bridges and [Leverett] Saltonstall and Wayne
  • ; Dixiecrat-Republican coalition; Senator Russell’s run for president; Pat McCarran; Donald Cook; Allan Shivers; Drew Pearson
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. G: How so? B: Well, somebody accused Lyndon--well, actually, what happened was that Drew Pearson wrote an article saying that Lyndon had killed a report that exposed corruption in Frank 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • to the Korean War; the subcommittee's work investigating the construction of air force bases in Morocco; and investigation of the Claremont Terminal and a Drew Pearson article about it; Downey Rices' methods of investigation; how investigations were initiated
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gained forty. Drew Pearson wrote up a column after You know, he used to pass out these [brass] rings [like on a] merry-go-round. He gave one, describing how Roosevelt and this young congressman had been named head, how Lyndon had put things in motion
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • almost non-existent ~ How do you explain this? H: I think former Prime Minister Lester Pearson put it in a phrase, "We've just got weary of well-doing." Further, quiet, constructi ve activity is never really newsworthy, you know. What is newsworthy
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . This was felt by many different kinds of people. One I remember is [Canadian Prime Minister Lester "Mike" Pearson] Mike Pearson. I remember [Anatoly F.] Dobrynin feeling very strongly. This was 22 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 agencts, was a little troublesome. The relationships between [Lester B.] Pearson and Johnson were not very good on Vietnam. Pearson did a rather, I think a rather
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ahead to tell you something about arrangements? G: Go ahead, while you are thinking about it. P: Let me tell you this story about Campobello. He was to meet with Lester Pearson, the prime minister of Canada, and he thought it was a good idea
  • and Austin; going to work for Press Secretary Bill Moyers; advancing a meeting between LBJ and the Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, at Campobello; LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; recording conversations between LBJ and the press office; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as chairman and then the next man on there was [Estes] Kefauver, a Democrat; the next one on it was Lester Hunt, I believe. three, and I forget the fourth. That's It was a committee of seven and next was Styles Bridges, a Republican, and [Leverett
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there and he wrote it off and signed it. So I still have the voucher somewhere in my records where he said, "One dead horse." He paid for it just to clear the records. G: He met with Lester Pearson in Canada, I think? A: In Campobello, that's right he did
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada, who was down for the ceremony also? S: No, I don't have any. I was not close enough to them in that to know how far he went. F: Well now, when you were on Air Force One, would he call you in and talk with you
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE: Drew Pearson
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  • Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969
  • Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Drew Pearson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the President of June 24, 1966, the memorandum of a telephone conversation with Drew Pearson of June 29, 1966. And as you can see, we by and large took a very tough line, including the inclusion of criminal penalties for the auto industry. I went over
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a daily column. By that time Pearson, who'd collaborated on the book, had been discharged by the Baltimore Sun for writing a chapter in the second Merry-Go-Round, called "More Merry-Go-Round" about Pat (Patrick Jay) Hurley, then Secretary of War, and his
  • Biographical information; Washington politics; Vice President Charles Curtis; meeting LBJ in NYA; court packing; LBJ in 1938 election; Allen and Drew Pearson; Senator Kerr; LBJ as Senate leader; Bobby Baker; Hubert Humphrey as whip; comparison
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Johnson did support the Eisenhower position. R: Oh, yes. G: One other question I wanted to ask on the open curtain proposal was Oh, sure. Drew Pearson seems to have been favorably inclined toward it. R: Yes. Drew Pearson liked it. 13 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Silver Spring, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 B: You know, in your January 2, 1955 [chronology], your paragraph says that Drew Pearson criticized LBJ's support of Price
  • Price Daniel and the Senate Judiciary Committee; Democratic Steering Committee; Drew Pearson; Commerce Committee; Senator Alben Barkley; selection of Harry Truman as 1944 vice-presidential candidate; use of Skeeter Johnston's office for lunch
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Neustadt and somebody else. The other thing I remember, and this came later, but sometime in early 1966 Drew Pearson started after me, saying that I was soft on the highway safety program, the automobile safety program, because I had once worked for [Robert
Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? B: It was after the election in '48. He used to have B. A. and me over to his home on Sundays a lot. I can recall that he used to always want to listen to Drew Pearson. Drew Pearson carried a lot of influence in Washington at that time. [Johnson
  • Election to Congress in 1948; Sam Rayburn; Homer Thornberry; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; early relationship with LBJ; Drew Pearson; support of LBJ over Shivers in 1956; selection of Mrs. Bentsen as committeewoman; Secretary for the Committee
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • well, and you would get telegrams delivered [at] all hours. .veyed to him. He wanted them picked up instantly and con- We had the assignment on several occasions of monitoring Drew Pearson when Johnson himself could not hear the Pearson broadcast
  • Biographical information; Alvin Wirtz; Senate office; Drew Pearson; excess profits tax; LBJ's techniques; Presidential ambitions; Preparedness Subcommittee; firing of Douglas MacArthur; racial issues; other Senate staffers
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; I wasn't there. But Drew Pearson and McCarthy hated each other so much that when McCarthy returned to be sworn in for his next term in the Senate, as they normally do, Drew Pearson went to Johnson and said, "I want you to object to McCarthy's being
  • Beginning work with LBJ; LBJ's temper; LBJ's personal struggle with "liberal" and "conservative" labels; Bobby Baker; problems with McCarthy; Drew Pearson's effort to blackmail LBJ into objecting the seating of McCarthy in the Senate; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hands, and the first thing he said was, "Did you read the Pearson article?" And Drew Pearson had printed a story a few days before that John Carver, who was then in this job and who was slotted to take my job in the Federal Power Commission, that he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • through pork-barreling or projects that they were interested in? R: Not necessarily. nesses. Johnson was a genius at determining people s weak­ 1 You know, Drew Pearson came out with a terrific anti­ Johnson feud. My God, Johnson personally put
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to maintain confidence. He had close ties with Drew Pearson and so did Howard Morgan. When the news of our appointments was published, Howard telephoned me. I had never met him, and he started telling me how much trouble I was going to have, that I was in deep
  • and report; Swidler's relationship with Drew Pearson; Swidler's commitment to being fair to private utilities despite his previous position with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); how Morgan became a FPC commissioner; the merger of Western Light
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I've told you--and I just can't index this mentally right away-I think I mentioned last time it would be a good idea to look up a Drew Pearson column on it. that killed it. The vote was 41 to 40 to recommit the bill, and Drew Pearson wrote
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . No. It was the year that it was debated. Drew Pearson right at the first of the year criticized LBJ for what he called a one-man rule and I think particularly for choosing Price Daniel over Herbert Lehman for the Judiciary Committee. had seniority
  • Recollections from 1955 on legislative matters; Price Daniel; Drew Pearson; interstate highway bill; Quemoy and Matsu; Styles Bridges; the Capehart Amendment; minimum wage; McCarthy Amendment on Geneva talks; Rayburn and LBJ; purchase of stations
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but we did and just thoroughly enjoyed it. M: Was the conversation invariably on politics? B: Almost always. They would listen to Drew Pearson. Everyone had to stop talking until Drew Pearson had finished his broadcast, and then they would talk about
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , once you got a rapprochement between Johnson and Yarborough, then all sorts of consequences flowed from it. the Drew Pearson columns. For one thing, you had Now, Pearson was bitterly anti-Johnson. I don't know why, I think it had something to do
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a commitment, so I appreciated it. Later he was to give Jack Anderson this story, who then was writing under Drew Pearson's name, and Jack Anderson made that a basis of a column on the day of the nomination in Los Angeles, and his suggestion
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with it. Notwithstanding the fact that Drew Pearson had written me up in one of his columns as being a tool of the tycoons, because I was carrying over the NASA patent policy to the FAA. I felt like writing Drew a letter and telling him that he was only just one hundred
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : At some point when we were fighting over the highway safety bill and the traffic safety bill, Drew Pearson wrote a zinging column about me saying in effect I'd worked for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • specific interest, but I'd be terribly sur­ prised if he wouldn't. G: He would use any hoe to kill a snake. Now, early in January of that year, 1955, Drew Pearson wrote a column criticizing LBJ's one-man rule. Some of the specifics that he referred
  • LBJ and the Majority Leadership and various Senate activities, 1955; committee assignments; LBJ and Drew Pearson; LBJ and the oil industry; foreign aid; LBJ and organized labor; Paul Butler; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ's heart attack; Whitney speech
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the criminal penalties were included in the draft and then deleted from the committee bill. C: Included in the draft that left us? G: Yes. C: (Long pause) Here's the issue paper. Okay. I've got to go. We haven't dealt with Drew Pearson . . . G
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they felt And in a sense I guess he did. But it was there, and something had to be done about it, and he grabbed it up and did something about it. G: I notice in reading back through the clippings that Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell really bore down
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • regulate, which was reported in Drew Pearson's column. A man named Joseph T. Lykes, who was the President of Lykes Steamship Line, complained to him that we were over-regulating the steamship industry. The Lykes representative in Washington, Mr. Thomas
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in the paper and he said, no, I was crazy. "Smoking, you can't put that in the paper." So the next time I went to a medical meeting everybody talked about it. I got the paper and gave it to Drew Pearson and Pearson wrote a story about it, and it was such a good
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • disparaging remarks about Wayne Morse. C: She never took the office, as I recall. G: She didn't. Do you recall that? C: She talked about him being kicked in the head by a horse. G: That' C: s it? Drew Pearson had used that same thing. I'm not sure
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the books." Tape 1 of 3, Side 2 O: "I have recommended that the national committee prepare detailed profiles on the authors, emphasizing their right-wing extremist background. Also, reprint the Drew Pearson column tearing [J. Evetts] Haley to pieces"--he