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They met frequently after that when Anderson made hour-long monthly visits to the Gorey household. He came not to talk politics or scandal, but religion. Anderson is a lay teacher for the Mormon Church, responsible for keeping in touch with a number of Mormons in the neighborhood, and Mrs. Gorey is one of them. Last
...such gossip as a 1970 bit about the then mayor of Tucson, James Corbett Jr., allegedly barging uninvited into a young woman's Washington hotel room and biting her knee (Corbett lost the subsequent election). Anderson also polices the drinking habits of Capitol Hill (he is an abstemious Mormon) and waxes indignant when public servants do not pay their own hotel bills...
Divine Charter. As for using stolen documents, Anderson has no scruples, except that he and his staff do no pilfering themselves. He says that he believes the Constitution to be divinely inspired-an idea he derives from Mormon theology-and he interprets it as forbidding Government secrecy that allows officials to mislead the public. "The framers of the Constitution did not intend that," he maintains...
...columnist is not even a member of Washington's tight Mormon inner circle, though he attends services regularly and serves as "a home teacher," visiting Mormon families regularly for counseling and prayer. He is a bit too liberal and splashy for Mormon leaders like Senator Wallace F. Bennett and Hotelman J. Willard Marriott. Church etiquette requires that he be called "Brother Anderson," but some of the brethren choke on the words...
...drove a taxicab to subsidize young Jack's missionary travels for the church. At the age of twelve he was a newspaper employee, reporting on Boy Scout affairs, and in high school he was student-body president. Once he tried to do an expose on the remains of Mormon polygamy; when church authorities learned...