Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dispatched Heckler. Returning to Washington, Ike next day headed a National Security Council meeting, prepared campaign treks: a one-day sortie into Virginia and Florida, another to Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the White House neatly dispatched a heckler. Columnist Drew Pearson's report that Ike had suffered a relapse in Minneapolis during his swing last fortnight (see PRESS) was categorically denied by Press Secretary James Hagerty, and later by scores of Minneapolis officials and police guards who shook hands with Ike just before his departure. At week's end the President entered Walter Reed Hospital...
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt was President, the inside dope of Washington Columnist Drew Pearson has often been flatly contradicted by the White House-and by the facts. Once President Truman publicly called him an "s.o.b."* Last week Columnist Pearson, who has less respect for facts than Walter Winchell, set a record even for him; he provoked a bristling White House denial a day before his column saw print. Burden of the column: "It will be vigorously denied," but President Eisenhower "apparently suffered a mild relapse" on his way to the Minneapolis airport during his mid-October Western campaign trip...
...Pearson's column went out as usual to his 650 papers three days before publication date, which was the very day of Ike's long-promised "head-to-toe" physical examination at Walter Reed Hospital. Soon Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's phone began jangling with queries from editors. One of them supplied him with the full Pearson text. When he saw it, Hagerty called a press conference and spent 45 angry minutes taking apart "the most amazing document of falsehood that I have ever''seen." To any of some 80 newsmen who covered...
...Pearson: "Ike was hustled into his plane, the Columbine, without bidding goodbye to local dignitaries." The facts: Ike bade goodbye to state and local Republican leaders and 20 motorcycle police, shook hands with about 30 persons...
...been a champion of civil liberties, a critic of Anglophiles who would keep Canada more dependent on Britain ("They want us to ape the English in everything from accent to aristocracy"), and a staunch friend of the U.S. (he once accused Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson of "adolescence" for carping about U.S. foreign policy). Protestant Smith has strong backing in Roman Catholic Quebec because of his support of religious teaching in schools and the fact that he speaks French...