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...some cases, what aides to the Senators said differed greatly from what the Senators themselves said. A legislative aide to Sen. James B. Pearson (R-Kan.) assured students of the validity of their arguments against the Byrd Amendment. Pearson voted for it a few hours later...
...victims, have yet to see a retraction or apology: his unquestioning and unwarranted support of Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, as revealed in the new bestseller The Arnheiter Affair by Neil Sheehan; who is also winner of (oh, sweet irony!), this year's first annual Drew Pearson Award for investigative reporting...
...Anderson walked unannounced into Drew Pearson's Washington office. For the next 22 years he was Pearson's low-paid (never more than $14,000 a year) legman and for a while was anonymous as well. In 1957 he threatened to quit; Pearson held him by promising more bylines and eventual inheritance of the column...
...make it strictly investigative and, much as the idea might shock his victims, impartial. Though he tries to avoid criticizing his mentor, he says: "With Drew, the column was more of a personal vehicle. Some of Drew's columns were simply to expound his own philosophy." Pearson conducted what looked like personal vendettas-against...
...Anderson, while still working under Drew Pearson, who in 1966 exposed the misuse of campaign funds by Senator Thomas Dodd; the Connecticut Democrat was then censured by the Senate and defeated by the voters. Anderson was the first to report that California Republican George Murphy remained on the Technicolor Inc. payroll while serving in the Senate; Murphy lost the next election. The columnist also dug up many of the facts in the case of the late Washington Fixer Nathan Voloshen and Martin Sweig, aide to then House Speaker John McCormack, who used McCormack's office for profitable influence peddling...