The Walter Trohan Scripts, 1950-1968, are arranged chronologically. In addition to four boxes of radio scripts, there is one folder of miscellaneous material.
The scripts for Trohan's weekly radio broadcasts over an eighteen-year period beginning in August, 1950 (one script) and running unbroken from January, 1951 to December, 1968. Gaps of approximately one month each year seem to indicate vacation time. The substance of the broadcasts is political commentary, editorial rather than objective. Each broadcast covers an important political event (i.e. presidential primaries and elections, presidential tours, foreign and demostic crisis, congressional debates, etc.) and sometimes subordinate matters. The scripts touch upon all the major news items in the political sphere during these years. Trohan has a knack for the personal touch and the aside, thus his broadcasts contain a rather substantial human element.
The miscellaneous file contains eight documents from newspaper clippings to a speech presented in 1968 which defines Trohan's own brand of conservatism and presents his notion of the opposite persuasion (see Miscellaneous File Cover Sheet). Perhaps the most interesting document in the file is a memoir entitled "My Thirty-five Years in Washington." This paper clearly presents the "Trohan flavor."
