Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning capital correspondent best known for his investigations of governmental corruption and mismanagement, conflict of interest, labor racketeering, and organized crime. General papers include correspondence, speeches, notes, scripts and recordings of appearances on radio and television, and award exhibit books. The correspondence, 1945-1973, is partially indexed and includes letters from Ezra Taft Benson, Paul H. Douglas, Gerald R. Ford, Barry Goldwater, James C. Hagerty, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Eliot Janeway, Lyndon B. Johnson, C. Estes Kefauver, Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur W. Krock, Robert Lasch, John L. McClellan, Raymond Moley, Karl E. Mundt, Richard M. Nixon, Drew Pearson, Westbrook Pegler, Herbert Philbrick, and J. Strom Thurmond. Writings include clippings and drafts of articles from the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune and the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and various periodicals. There are also drafts, notes, research files, correspondence, and reviews for seven books--Washington Cover-up (1962), Tentacles of Power: The Story of Jimmy Hoffa (1965), Despoilers of Democracy (1965), The Pentagon (1967), George Romney: Mormon in Politics (1968), Strike Force: Organized Crime and the Government (1972), and Game Plan for Disaster: An Ombudsman's Report on the Nixon Years (1976). The subject files include research material as well as topics of personal interest. Of the investigative files those pertaining to the Teamsters Union and the Alcohol Tax Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue are particularly complete, as are the files on Bobby Baker, Wolf Ladejinsky, and Otto Otepka. There are also noteworthy files concerning his Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship and the Sigma Delta Chi Freedom of Information Committee.
