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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
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And he never could find out. I told Ted what happened. And Ted would never admit So he never forgave me for that because Drew Pearson, who had far more circulation than I did-­ somebody sent Drew Pearson that story or Drew found out about it someway
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- IV -- 20 days has there been a call put through to Jack Anderson?" I forget whether it was Jack Anderson or Drew Pearson in those days
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- II -- 12 live over again, I would have never made that recommendation, but Drew Pearson and the real radical
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for this when I was Anyhow, the next day here's the way the They had a press conference, and I thought it was Drew Pearson that asked it, but on checking it when I was writing my book, I called for Drew and he was in the hospital, [and] Jack Anderson said
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as it affected the future of atomic energy for civilian use, civilian benefits and so on. G: There was a Drew Pearson column in June that indicated that the Preparedness Subcommittee had a scathing report on the Truman Administration and the failure
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • suite in the Hilton Hotel and really being amazed myself at the fact that anybody was taking Johnson very seriously. My stepfather, Drew Pearson, for whom I had worked before entering the army, was a long-time friend of Mr. Johnson's, but they frequently
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; James Forrestal; socializing with people such as Gwen Tucker, Warren Magnuson, and Drew Pearson; the Sequoia; having Lynda and Luci's portrait painted; the Johnsons' Austin house on Dillman Street; vacationing in Brackettville and Fort Clark, Texas
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • White and Bob Kintner and Drew Pearson and others. And he . . . I often thought was too accessible in some ways . . . breeds contempt. 11 Well, he was just always available. 11 familiarity And he sometimes 1 sought the press to come and visit
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Drew Pearson? A: Drew Pearson. He told the President that he thought that there ought to be better liaison 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Pearson and Walter Winchell emerged with the largest circulations. In the meantime, in New York Scripps-Howard started the Seabury investigation, and Lowell Limpus handled that for the Daily News. We were the dearest of friends. me. I was at his house
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 38, 20 October 1986," LBJ Library (Item)
  • of rew Pearson" Larry E. Temple (far left) joins meeting • progress f the LBJ oun­ ation Board of Directors. Temple was voted to membership o the Board to r place Mrs. harles Engelhard, whose resignation was regretfully accepted by the Boar . The L"bra
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 73, October 2000," LBJ Library (Item)
  • transcripts with George Ball. Horace Busby, Torn Clark, Roswell Gilpatric, Bi.llyGraham, Louis Martin, Robert McNamara, Drew Pearson and Earl Warren; Texts of Lyndon Johnson's State of the Union speeches for I 967, 1968, and 1969, and his address
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Five Year Report," LBJ Library (Item)
  • papers are nine former CabineL officers: Joseph W. Barr, Alan Boyd, Ramsey Clark. Clark Clifford. Henry Fowler, Marvin Walson, ,John Gardner, Dean Rusk and RoberL Wood. OLher major acquisitions indude Lhe one million Drew Pearson papers, and Lhe
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Ten Year Progress Report, 1981," LBJ Library (Item)
  • re earchers' questions. the papers of such figures as Drew Pearson, Ramsey Clark, John Gardner, Dean Rusk, and Wright Patman. Such documents add a unique breadth to the research opportunities here, and new papers ar a ·quir d each year. Tl e donation
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- I -- 25 campaigns. This was the first time that I met people like Drew Pearson and Bob Allen. At that time they were
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to become a Roman Catholic. If he decided to do that, it would be his own business. In reading between the lines of some things he has said to me, I don't think this is so. But someone told me not long ago--about a month ago--that Drew Pearson predicted
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is not necessarily the same thing. I think he told me that--Winchell, by the way, was a great power, as was Drew Pearson. I mean, everybody listened to them on radio, and Winchell--Pearson had some ideas, but Winchell didn't understand what was going on at all
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you very much for your note on the Mite Corporation. We will have the Pentagon look into the matter." Signed, Jack Valenti. During the height of the Dodd controversy, Drew Pearson at that time wrote a little column about Dodd's involvement
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a good deal of the press: Tex Easley, who covered a lot of the Texas papers; Drew Pearson, who was, I think, friend, sometimes formidable enemy, but 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • billboard company in East Texas, and I tried my best to stay out of it. I was sure that any day that apostle of the new journalism, Drew Pearson, would write that Lyndon Johnson had on his staff a fellow who's connected with the billboard interests. So I
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 39, 15 February 1987," LBJ Library (Item)
  • -Round· The Worl of Drew Pearson." Guest speaker; Jack Anderson Eleanor Roose~cll Amon~ the Library', recent di. tmauishcd vis11l1rswa. Tcxa, • JU niur senatnr Phi1 Gramm. "h11 llmn:c.1the rn,tallation \Ith Diru.tllr H:im. :\!id
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Helen Crouch. W: No, I did not know her. G: How about Tom McNamara? W: No, I didn't know him either. He worked for Drew Pearson. If I had I wouldn't really like it, because I never really cared for Pearson. G: Pearson and LBJ must have had
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , and Tyler was the stepson of Drew Pearson and the son of Luvie Pearson. Two of the most interesting figures in all of Washington in my whole life. I was crazy about them. We had a kind of a love/hate relationship with Drew. I mean, every now and then he
  • ; the Johnsons' relationship with Senator Wayne Morse; LBJ becoming Senate Majority Leader; LBJ's secretaries; Mrs. Johnson's feelings about riding in an airplane; the Johnsons' relationship with Drew Pearson; the Johnsons' party for Bess and Tyler Abell; family
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kefauver was ever a prime mover in the Preparedness Subcorrmittee. He went along, he joined in, but he was never a leader in the corrmittee, not like [John] Stennis was. G: Did Kefauver tend to leak infonnation to Drew Pearson or others? J: Probably
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Also, Drew Pearson charged he was ''laying down." and I called him "Laying down Johnson, F: I used to call him "Landslide 11 teasing him. When he first entered the Senate in '48, was there much indication that he was going to go on to be the Senate
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came and went by train, which said something about the times--he had a press conference for the Texas press in his hotel room. Jack Anderson from Drew Pearson attended. I don't know how the Stevenson people let this happen. As a matter of fact
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or to Eunice Shriver or some other Kennedy and we'd get into a Drew Pearson column fight or something of that sort. I didn't go back over there. I did talk several times to Macy. Macy was not entirely clear as to what this was all about. John could never
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Connally said, lIyou are just going to tell him that he is like everybody else. II Zephyr said, "l know he is like everybody else, but I ain't going to be the one to tell him. II That's the story that I think Drew Pearson had, and it got mixed up
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Why do you say that? P: Well, Bess Abell's father [Earle Clements] was governor of a state. She was married to a successful young man. Wasn't he Drew Pearson's son? G: Stepson. P: Stepson. There's something about Bess Abell. social
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for him. Drew Pearson was always writing stories about the guy from C i t i e s Service. I don't know whether he was a Texan or not, but they were always giving him something. Eisenhower had never had any money; he'd been a military man. I guess
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hour. During the fifties about this time, we would go out every spring to George Vournas' annual Greek party. He was a neighbor of Drew Pearson, had a lovely farm out right close to Drew's, used to have a roast lamb and those marvelous little pastries