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By JOHN GOOLRICK
The Chuck Robb case. Trash journalism, or legitimate reporting?
In my opinion we probably have a little of both. Certainly the story has all the ingredients needed to titillate the public: A powerful politician, a beautiful woman, rumors of drugs and prostitutes.
Yet, as the country music song says, most of this is just “digging up bones.” The events go back to the mid-1980s, when Charles S. Robb was governor of Virginia. He has been a United States Senator since his election in 1988.
Robb’s biggest problem is that the things being said about him simply don’t square with the image of the wholesome, milk-drinking former Marine he built up after he married Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of the late president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Pet me admit flat out a certain bias. I like Chuck Robb. When he was elected lieutenant governor in 1977 and put his office in the bell tower near the State Capitol, he often invited me to drop by and chat with him. I was then a reporter covering politics and the legislature and he was a valuable source of information. Not only that, but he was always gracious and friendly and I found much to admire about him.
The same was true when he became governor. He seemed to me, and certainly most others around the Capitol, a man determined to do his
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