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Angry mobs starting salting the Japanese cherry trees and tried to burn the Japanese Embassy.
During the war Herndon spent a stint as a radio newscaster for WLPN in Norfolk reporting the “Week’s News in Review” from Washington. His career as a journalist also included the position of sports editor and assistant city news editor for the Suffolk News Herald.
Then when he came to Capitol Hill as a congressional aide it was for the imaging general editor of the Northern Virginia Pilot, Congressman Winder Harris.
He stayed to serve Harris’ successor, Ralph Daughton, Norfolk attorney and the former southern regional director of the FBI. Daughton was defeated in his bid for re-election because of his conservative stand on medicare and Herndon’s career was at a cross-roads.
Senator Bird approached him about running for the seat and offered to finance the campaign.
House speaker Sam Rayburn talked with him about joining the staff for a new congressman from Massachusetts, a man named Kennedy.
Chose Insurance
Lobbying
But Herndon decided to take the job downtown and turned his efforts to lobbying for the insurance industry.
His log of speeches starts on March 12, 1947, at Aurora, Illinois and covers the country. He traveled V> million miles on one airline alone—he traveled for 30 years. And his efforts were rewarded by the creation of the Maurice G. Herndon Award sponsored by the In
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