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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Steve Johnson is an old friend and colleague, a man who was one of Virginia's best political reporters.
These days Mr. Johnson is slowdy twisting in the wind. Last August he became press secretary to U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb, D-Va. He did that after returning to school and getting a doctorate. The job seemed ideally suited to Mr. Johnson, one that would allow him to transmit Sen. Robb’s thoughts about critical domestic and international issues to the news media, so he thought.
But like those who got caught up in Watergate in previous times, the forest couldn’t be seen for the trees. A private detective and a national television show resurrected with some new angles the old story that Sen. Robb, while governor of Virginia from 1982-86, had secretly partied in the fast lane. There was talk of cocaine, prostitutes, beautiful women, a possible police cover-up.
When Steve Johnson became press secretary, hidden somewhere in the office was a tape recording passed along to the Robb camp by an old friend. The tape was of an illegally recorded conversation in which L. Douglas Wilder, who is how Virginia governor, made some disparaging remarks about Sen. Robb. The two have been feuding for years and now the feud has resulted in kamikaze attacks against each other that have made national news and threaten both their political futures.
If press accounts can be believed, David McCloud, Sen. Robb’s chief of staff, and Robert Watson, an aide he named to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, felt Mr.
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