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  • t ua t i on and he di dn 't know whe t he r he wan te d t o run off to Canada with th is about to happen. Ye t he a so f el t i t would be good t o calk to Le s cer Pearson Mini ster-Canada ] , who had wo n a Nobel Pr ize fo r a r ea . He a nd Pea
  • ] Pearson and Anderson. I took great pains-- this had to be in 1963--to emphasize what was the truth, that the Vice President didn't have the slightest connection with the selection process. In fact, he didn't know on the Saturday that we made
  • of the genuine thoughts of the Vietnam military personnel, that we should give this Vietnam mail the widest dissemination in keeping with the rules of good taste and good sense. There were some other occasions where a columnist such as Drew Pearson would
  • was Drew Pearson's leg man, you might say . He was up there col­ lecting information for Drew Pearson, named Tom McNamara . I think Tom has retired now, but Tom and I-later became very good friends . a very eager beaver type to get information for Drew
  • a divorce. Aunt Lucy was--her health was failing, but she was one of those sturdy, dependable people that you never thought of as being sick because she didn't talk about it. She was of stern stuff. Drew Pearson took a few bites out of us about the natural
  • nothing about the [Drew Pearson story on a deal with John] McClellan. I do remember his reaction to the Senate's failure to extend the ban on mail order sale of pistols and rifles and shotguns. Obviously Lyndon Johnson never got over what happened
  • about it. Let me see, we went up to Campobello, I guess it was two years ago, and President Johnson was up there to meet with Prime Minister Pearson. They were dedicating, I think, the new center--or breaking ground, I've forgotten. But anyway I
  • : Yes, I saw her Sunday. R: --at Drew Pearson's [funeral], yes, and we were talking about Maury. I just can't remember. I don't think he got over with whatever they called Maury's Young Turks at that time, because the more they went, the more extreme
  • . So I wired my father, who was still alive at that point, and told him I was broke and that I needed a thousand dollars. Well, somehow Drew Pearson got hold of that, so he ran a story: "Little Billy Proxmire got over to Germany and ran out of money
  • from Polk Brothers to put Klutznick on the air to wipe off some of the criticism of the Ambassador. Drew Pearson and others had accused Ambassador Kennedy, the candidate's father, of being a Nazi supporter. To counter this charge, we asked Phil
  • . This probably is what you have there . the bit and we needed him . But Kaiser was doing One a day, you remember those Kaiser merchant ships? G: Yes . B: They were awful . G: Were they? B: Yes . G: Drew Pearson, in one of his columns, mentioned
  • at their home and I knew Senator Hugo Black pretty we 11 . The Durr' s used to have a lot of pa rti es. They had people over like Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, John L. Lewis, the Johnsons, Hugo Black and his lovely wife, Virginia's sister. G: Do you
  • for by our organization. \~hite That's all There are no other funds, no government funds. But, you know, Jack Anderson or Drew Pearson had the most scurrilous--whether he likes Johnson or not is immaterial, but he ought at least to have his facts correct
  • . The word got out, and Drew Pearson had called up my wife and said that the word was out that we were getting a divorce. really embarrassing. My sister was embarrassed. So it was She had to go ahead and write everybody and call everybody up and te11
  • was J. Edgar Hoover and Bobby must have authorized it. It was harmful. I believe it probably was the [Drew] Pearson columns. We were persuaded this was planted and most unfairly presented to harm to Bobby. G: Did you see Hoover behind it or Johnson
  • Pearson columns must have been effective. R: Oh, they were. G: Here's another memo about Paul Healy and a story that he did on LBJ They were godsends to me at some times. going to San Antonio-­ R: Who was [Donald] Farrell? G: He was the astronaut
  • navy cape around him as sort of a wrap against the chill. G: Drew Pearson had a column during this period that seemed to indicate that in that meeting the President hinted that he had an interest in running for another term, a fourth term. Do you
  • [?], [Westmoreland] sent him up to Hue and took part of my staff; I gave him part of my staff--Will Pearson, to be his chief of staff--and key members out of my staff to go up there to be on his staff to get that Hue situation with the marines squared away. So my
  • with his personal r e lations with them. F: obo dy that h e k i n d of d e v eloped an instant a n ti pat hy towa r d, o r vi ce versa ? C: Oh, h e a nd Pr ime Min i s te r Pearson of Canad a rea l ly d idn' t ge t along too well. I think t he re
  • about what I am about to tell you in The Reporter at the time, and Drew Pearson had a couple of articles about it. What happened was that everybody felt--that is the Johnson people and the Stevenson people--that Kennedy was making an all ou effort