Word: seebohm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times published a story from its Bonn bureau reporting that Goldwater had been exchanging letters with right-wing West German politicians. Most notably, said the story, quoting "competent informants," Goldwater had been in "frequent and friendly" correspondence with Hans-Christoph Seebohm, a conservative who was then the West German Minister of Transport. The byline on the story: "Arthur J. Olsen," then the Times's Bonn bureau chief...
When the story appeared, Goldwater called it the "damnedest lies," and Seebohm's staff issued a denial that the two men had ever met or exchanged letters. Today, Olsen sticks by his story, claiming that he confirmed it with Seebohm and other sources...