Created some controversy when he appeared in 1957 as a guest on
The Mike Wallace Interview (1957) and said that
_John F. Kennedy_ "is the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that was ghostwritten for him", referring to "Profiles in Courage". The Kennedy family was angered and threatened to sue, but
Mike Wallace and Pearson stood by the statement. Nevertheless, ABC issued a retraction and an apology. It was later revealed that Kennedy speech writer
Theodore Sorensen did, in fact, ghostwrite most of the book.