Nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Jonah Golberg's "mom,"
courtesy of The Alex Constantine Archives.
At $1,000 a week, a gigantic salary for a reporter in 1972, Goldberg recalled in a brief interview this week, “I was practically stealing because all I had were dirty jokes and gossip.” She said Nixon “loved the dirty jokes and who was sleeping with who” even though it was “mainly techies sleeping with stewardesses.”
Should have been shot as a spy, before she could pass her ability to steal money to Jonah.
Watergate prosecutors considered charging Finance Committee officials with election law violations for making the payments without proper documentation but decided they could never prove criminal intent, especially in light of Chotiner’s death Jan. 30, 1974, from injuries sustained in a Jan. 23 traffic accident.
“He was killed in a head-on collision with a truck on Shirley Highway and the name of the truck driver was George McGovern,” Goldberg recalled this week.
That isn’t quite right, however. The accident took place on Chain Bridge Road in McLean in front of the home of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). The only McGovern involved in the accident was Dr. Joseph D. McGovern, no relation to the presidential candidate, who was driving a car against which Chotiner’s Lincoln Continental came to rest after being hit by the truck.
No, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
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