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moral-to-the-core family man.
His father in law, the late Lyndon Johnson, was a known womanizer all his political life, and nobody was surprised when rumors of yet another affair surfaced. Similarly, you can make all the allegations of womanizing against Bill Clinton that you want and nobody will raise an eyebrow because it’s exactly what people expect of him.
When Chuck Robb was Governor, I was still a member of the Capitol press corps and had a chance to observe him frequently. At the lavish cocktail parties put on by various interest groups I would watch him with a glass of nothing stronger than gingerale in his hand. The thought that he might attend parties where dope was openly used and where scantily clad bimbos abounded was not one I could have imagined.
To me Chuck Robb was a straight arrow, a handsome, rugged, nice guy who was, to put it bluntly, kind of boring. After all, I saw every night at various places liasons between some distinguished members of the General Assembly and ladies who were not their spouses. In an imperfect world, one has to often overlook imperfections even if they occur in the elected leaders of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
But what Robb has to overcome is the feeling of betrayal among all of those Virginians who believed the image he created.
Now such hopes have long since faded and Robb is fighting for his political survival. That is still very much in doubt, and it is too early to tell whether the letter he recently sent out will succeed in closing the
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