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...paper also wields its influence behind the scenes, helps make the news it reports. In late 1949 Post editors grew concerned over the rising influence of gangsters in U.S. politics. While Star Reporter Eddie Folliard went to New York to do a series on such "tygoons" as Frank Costello and Joe Adonis, Graham conceived a congressional investigation and began scanning the U.S. Senate to cast a likely Senator in the top role. He needed a man who 1) did not come from a state to which the corrupt trail would lead, and 2) could handle himself...
Graham was the first newsman to wrest assurance from Adlai Stevenson that he would accept the Democratic nomination in 1952. Through Reporter Folliard at the convention, the publisher sent Delegate Stevenson a note asking him to telephone. On the phone he got Stevenson to agree that it would be "an act of arrogance" to turn the nomination down. The result: Folliard scored a beat in the Post with a story that Stevenson would accept...
Twenty steps up to the ninth floor, 20 down: Ike trained for the Columbine's 19-step ramp. When Guatemalan President Castillo Armas arrived to visit Ike, the Washington Post and Times Herald's Eddie Folliard went along, too. Later Folliard told the press corps: "It's obvious that he's lost weight, as the doctors wanted him to. He looks completely lean. His color is good. He has a ruddy look. His eyes seem clear. He was animated, as he always has been, a man in motion . . . lean and sharp...
...giving them everything. That's fine with me." Last week the press added its own vote of confidence. Said United Press's Merriman (Thank You, Mr. President) Smith, tough-talking dean of White House correspondents: "Hagerty has done a truly phenomenal job in Denver." Said veteran Eddie Folliard, Washington Post and Times Herald reporter who has been covering the capital since Calvin Coolidge was President: "Hagerty is the best press officer in the world, the best I've ever worked with...
...showing indignation at the evildoers, the President seemed to have saved it for the U.S. press; his main points at the conference were to minimize the scandals and to insist that his Administration, not congressional committees, deserved the credit for what housecleaning has been done. In answering Reporter Folliard, he said that continued drastic action was a better phrase than drastic action. There is really nothing unusual or new in the current situation in Washington. This sort of thing is going on all the time. Some people go wrong and are fired. Oh, the trouble may be a little higher...