Roscoe Drummond papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS208
Correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and other materials comprise the papers of this famous syndicated Washington columnist for (at various times) Christian Science Monitor, New York Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. The collection includes, in the form of clippings, a substantial number of Drummond's columns, together with correspondence from W. Averell Harriman, J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Alf Landon, Dean Rusk, and Wendell Willkie, among others.
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Roscoe Drummond (1902-1983) was a Washington D.C.-based reporter-editor and syndicated columnist for more than 50 years. He wrote for the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. His column, "State of the Nation" was published three times a week in 150 newspapers in the United States and abroad.
According to his obituary, "He worked against censorship and coined the phrase ''creeping censorship'' to describe what he saw as a growing trend by government to withhold information. In 1952, he headed an advisory committee working with a Senate investigation of the handling of news by Government agencies."
[Source for further information: http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/01/obituaries/roscoe-drummond-81-is-dead-political-columnist-for-50-years.html]
11 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
English
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository