Discover Our Collections


  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-04-10 (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)

1 results

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reporter many years ago. When I was in Swathmore, Pennsylvania, I worked for the Philadelphia papers part time, but I drifted into political reporting when I was here in Washington. F: By the time the New Deal came on, you were established as a syndicated
  • news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests