An appreciation
repost
...Way before there was Drudge...there was the Doc...
Dr. William Leavell...editor and publisher of the political
newsletter The Washington Report...always printed on pink paper, and
distributed to every politican in DC...the House, Senate, Administration
and press...you name it, they got it.
Doc first appeared on my local talk show in Tampa on WDAE. He fast became a regular guest.
HE with his devoted wife Patty, were winter residents in the Tampa
Bay area and when I went national overnight...he went with me. He was
my guest so often that he might have been dubbed my “co-host”.
Doc had a lot to say and even though he was careful about revealing
stuff he did not hesitate to answer my queries and give me just the
facts as he knew them and my national audience loved him.
And I could always count on him to bring something up each time he
appeared...most times something not known by the general press yet.
There’s one way to confirm what a person is telling you is probably
true and that is Doc, to my knowledge, was NEVER sued for anything he
printed or said.
Therefore you might disagree with him but give the man his due...he
had insiders all over the place telling him stuff and he relayed it one
way or another.
Doc loved to click on C-Span and count the number of congressman who
were walking around with the pink sheet sticking out of their pockets.
He actually worked for a Congressman many years before and rode the
“tooterville trolley” from office to the Capital daily....so he had that
insiders vantage as to the workings or lack thereof...our legislature.
He was conservative...possibly more so than a Rush or a even Pat
Bucanan but he was very pro-Israel and I later found out a little about
that from a personal letter he sent me some years after he began
appearing on my show.
Doc’s gone now...passed on a few years ago in his native North Carolina home.
I feel I can reveal his letter now and I will in the next post...unless the Massoud silences me before I do the deed.
We survived broadcasting together on no less than six major radio
networks over the 10-12 year span of the national “Stan Major Show”.
The total station count through that 12 years approached 500 stations...which ain't bad in anybody's book.
The political stuff was fun and interesting but the series that Bill
Leavell and I did on the final network, National Radio Network, is what I
remember most.
Doc loved political history and had a knack of responding to anything
regardless of how long ago it happened or who was involved.
So I wanted to do a series where on each show he appeared we would
dissect one President at a time. We did and of course we started with
George Washington and went right up the years until his last
President...George Bush (the younger).
The series was so good it should have been placed in every library
in America. Not only did Doc lay out the actual historic highlights of
each man in the White House...he also had dozens of tidbits that brought
each First Family to life.
Where did he find all that info? Well he did and you can see why
such a prestigious institution as Cambridge University in England would
honor him and they did....and he flew there to take part and accept the
honors. He was most proud of that, I believe.
So was I.
God be with you Doc...we loved you!
POSTER'S NOTE: OF ALL THE POSTS I'VE WRITTEN I'M MOST PROUD OF THIS ONE AND THE "MOM" POST.
I'M
ALSO PLEASED THAT THE LEAVELL FAMILY, SON BILL (FORMER JUDGE)... WIFE
CYNDI AND THE KIDS AND DOC'S BELOVED WIFE "PATTY" WERE ABLE TO SEE THIS
AND RESPOND.
THANK YOU ALL!
stanmajor@aol.com
