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President Eisenhower "nearly proved Abe ," Washington columnist Drew Pearson told an audience last night. He claimed Eisenhower that "you can fool all of the people--for at least years...
...reasons the U.S. "no longer has the military to force the Russians to budge at the conference Pearson stated, is that the American people were not the facts about national defense. He placed the blame lack of information on the policies of the previous stration and the "trend towards monopoly in radio...
...Diefenbaker rushed off to the House of Commons to announce that President Kennedy had agreed to make his first official visit out of the U.S. to Canada some time before June. The House burst into cheers, and as Cabinet members clustered around their triumphant boss even Opposition Leader Lester Pearson rose to offer his congratulations...
...were drawn together by their mutual bookishness and preoccupation with politics; Kennedy's near-fatal illness in 1955 sealed their bond. Sorensen compiled the research for Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, while Jack was convalescing in Florida, was wrongly credited by Drew Pearson with ghosting the book-a charge that was disproved by Sorensen's notes, Kennedy's handwritten drafts, and the assistance of Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford. Pearson later retracted his charges. Sorensen helped Kennedy plot his unsuccessful try for the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. Only weeks later they embarked on the long...
Next day the Post published without comment a letter from a sharp-eyed reader, asking "How much do you charge Drew Pearson for advertising?" The reader's point: the True article had been written by Drew Pearson and an assistant...