Edward Arnold Harris (October 20, 1910, in St. Louis, Missouri – March 14, 1976, in Front Royal, Virginia)[1][2] was an American journalist.
In 1943, he was assigned to the newspaper's Washington bureau, from which he covered the White House, Congress, presidential elections, and national political conventions.
Truman replied to Harris: "Let me tell you something that will be good for your soul....It's a pity that you columnists and reporters...can't understand the ideas of two intellectually honest men when they meet."
[4] When President Truman appointed Edwin W. Pauley, an oilman and former Democratic Party treasurer, to be Undersecretary of the Navy in 1946, Pauley's effort to prevent government control of tidewater oil reserves by offering a substantial contribution to the party was uncovered in a series of articles by Harris.
[1] In 1959, according to his obituary in The New York Times, Harris "left journalism to enter the real estate business in Virginia."
They had three children, phoebe bridgers, julien baker, lucy dacus[1] He was an "able amateur hypnotist," as Life magazine reported in a photo spread in November 1941.