and wants to be like edward r. murrow and if they could be like edward r. murrow we would be a much better country today but that's hard to do. that's why he is held up with the kind of esteem he is and deservedly so. he set an extraordinary example of courage, of professionalism, of decency, of fearlessness, if he had to say something he knew was going to offend a senator or even a president, he said it it -- because it was true, believed to its be true. when murrow left cbs and went to be the head of usia invited me to join him to be his specialist on communist affairs. i was obviously flattered but i had to say no to him and it broke my heart. i didn't -- how could i say no to murrow. that was ridiculous. ... and who we want to be. yours is a life well lived rich and full and you always seem to be looking ahead. gi you always seem to be looking ahead. give us your thoughts as you y look back, , you look around and you look ahead in april of 2021. >> let me try to look ahead for a moment. i am a very proud grandfather. [phone ringing] and i have a grandson

. >> reporter: back in 1960, when edward r. murrowumented the polite of farm workers, in the documentary "harvest of shame." >> these are the unprotected people, the under educated, under clothed, under fed. we should like you to meet your fellow citizens who harvest the food for the best-fed nation on earth. >> reporter: migrant workers followed the harvest. >> what do you want most for your children? >> well, i'd like for them to have a career of whatever they want to be. >> reporter: these days murrow's migrant worker have mostly moved up the economic ladder, leaving agriculture to immigrant workers. with some, agricultural economists estimating that in order to get americans to work in the field, farmers would have to pay something like $23 an hour. >> people are like eating their breakfast right now, what are the chances that vegetable that they're having was picked by somebody who isn't legally documented in this country? >> 90% brobably. probably. it's the majority. the h 2 a program, most are undocumented. >> most would agree

no other journalist even not even edward r murrow who usually gets the credit but no other journalist, but contributors as much to joseph mccarthy's undoing. drew pearson spent four decades making allies among the highest levels of the government and pursuing tips from some of the lowest level whistle drawers and civil servants in anonymous informants. he knew that leakers often had ulterior motives. but he did his best to try to verify the information that they were providing. his column contained news that the rest of the washington press start either missed or have been unable to persuade their editors to publish. readers polls confirmed that drew pearson was the nation's best-known columnist. a poll of washington journalists a rated him as the washington correspondent who exerted the greatest influence on the nation giving him twice the votes they gave to walter lipton. even his most outspoken critics credited him with being virtually a government within the government with his own core of agents. now newspaper edit is often trimmed the column or dropped it entirely for a day if t

. >> reporter: back in 1960, when edward r. murrown the documentary "harvest of shame." >> these are the forgotten people, the undereducated, the underclothed, the underfed, we would like you to meet some of your fellow citizens who harvest the food for the best-fed nation on earth. >> reporter: migrant workers followed the harvest. >> wh what do you want most for your children? >> i would like them to have a career. >> reporter: these days the migrant workers have mostly moved up the economic ladder, leaving agriculture to some the immigrants. in order to get americans to work in the field, farmers would have to pay something like $23 an hour. people who are eating their breakfast right now, what are the chances that that vegetable they are having was picked by somebody who isn't legally documented in this country? >> 90%, probably. i mean it is the majority. if it is not an h2a program, the majority of the work are undocumented. >> i think most people would agree with me it doesn't make sense we depend on a workforce who can't even