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Article: DREW PEARSON'S MERRY-GO-ROUND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 5, 1987
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AUSTIN, Texas - He was not as caustic as H.L. Mencken, or
as intellectual as Walter Lippmann. But Drew Pearson got his
newspaper work done. He wore a fedora and covered political scandal
in Washington for four decades. He brought down the high and mighty
in a wildly popular column called "Washington Merry-Go-Round." Some
liked the column and some didn't. Harry Truman thought Pearson was
"an SOB."
Drew Pearson died on his Maryland farm in 1969. He appreciated
changes that came with the '60s, but couldn't fathom the Vietnam
War. In the end he was a gentleman farmer watching war rage on TV
and trying to figure out rock 'n' roll.
Pearson's life is on display here at the Lyndon Baines ...