"As part of that competition between the papers, in 1955, under the auspices of the "Toronto Telegram" Donaldson built the first fallout shelter in Canada and lived in it for two days while the "Telegram" published articles about it.Between 1963 and 1966 he was based in Washington, D.C. while working for the "Toronto Telegram", and while in Texas the United States Secret Service restrained him for coming too near U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.