Death
Pearson died on September 1, 1969 at the age of 71 from the effects of a heart attack he had suffered a few days before. Jack Anderson took over as writer of the Washington Merry-Go-Round. An obituary in Time Magazine declared that over the years the disclosures in Pearson's column sent four Congressmen to jail and led to the resignation of President Eisenhower's chief of staff, Sherman Adams. Douglas Cohn continued the column after Anderson's death in 2005, and it remains the longest running column in American history.
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