Word: bettye
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Betty Wright has a different -- and more serious -- problem. Although the wife of Speaker Jim Wright says she has a head for business, the House ethics committee could find little evidence that she used it in her $18,000-a-year job with Mallightco, the company founded by the Wrights...
Like Betty Wright, most Washington wives are invisible until their principal gets in trouble. Pat Nixon held the title for most stoic wife until Maureen Dean gave an Oscar-winning performance during her husband's Watergate testimony, sitting primly behind him, blond hair pulled back, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze...
Several spouses have got into Betty Wright-like trouble. In 1976 Marion Javits, wife of the late Senator Jacob Javits, had to forgo a lucrative contract with Iran Air. In 1984 Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette ran into trouble when Greek businessman Basil Tsakos paid her $55,000...
Attorney Oldaker concedes that there is no written proof that Betty ever did anything: no memos written by or to her, no memos written by others in which she is mentioned, no indication that she worked in Mallick's offices more than five to seven days a month. Even so...
CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter