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That's one way to see your spouse. Emily Malino, wife of New York Congressman James Scheuer, complains, "Staff members want all of your husband. They'll schedule on weekends, birthdays and anniversaries." One wife recommends working in the office as marriage insurance. "With adoring staff all around, your husband might not want to come home to reality...
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 before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze. Former Attorney General John Mitchell's wife Martha took to telephoning reporters and was forcibly sedated. Rita Jenrette, whose husband John was convicted for taking bribes in Abscam, used her 15 minutes of celebrity to pose in Playboy, reveal that she and John...
Many Washington jobs raise conflict-of-interest questions. When Barbara Morris Lent took a job as a lobbyist for NYNEX, her husband, Congressman Norman Lent, sought approval of the ethics committee to vote on telephone legislation. Lawyer Marc Miller, author of Politicians and their Spouses' Careers, says, "Full disclosure and making sure the spouse got the job for her own talents help resolve the conflict." When Debbie Dingell, a lobbyist for General Motors, married Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell in 1981, she switched to an administrative job. "I'm sensitive to conflicts," says Dingell. "Fortunately, GM is large...
...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 for decorating his apartment, which seemed like a lot for choosing fabric swatches and paint chips, while her husband was simultaneously urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline...
Some couples reduce potential conflicts by both working for the government, an arrangement the checks and balances of the Constitution did not contemplate. When Elizabeth Dole was Transportation Secretary, the couple made intragovernmental history when she testified before husband Robert Dole, then Senate finance chairman, on "Alternatives to Tax on Use of Heavy Trucks." The subject matter renders plausible his protestations that there was no after-hours collusion between the executive and legislative branches of the marriage. "When you get home at 8:30, the last thing you want to do is get into business." It is equally unlikely that...