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  • Contributor > Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985 (remove)
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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, 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, 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, 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