And now for something completely different. Washington Post dishes the dirt on Lucianne Goldberg, Linda Tripp's erstwhile agent, and the doyenne of her own "conservative" website. It appears that La Goldberg used to brag about her sexual relationships with Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey, and she claimed she had sex with Johnson in the White House.
>>The Goldberg Variations
Our jaw dropped at Lucianne Goldberg's demand that Jeffrey Toobin withdraw his new impeachment book because it says the scandal-happy literary agent used to brag that when she was a few years older than Monica Lewinsky, she worked in the White House and had sex with Lyndon Johnson. We were equally surprised by Goldberg's threat of a libel suit if Random House refuses to remove all 125,000 copies of "A Vast Conspiracy" from the shelves.
Why? Because at a Washington Christmas party in the early 1980s, we personally heard Goldberg talk about her supposed affair with Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Yesterday a couple of other attendees confirmed to us that we remembered it right--and that Goldberg regaled revelers with tales of her White House adventures.
"She went on at some length about her relationship with Lyndon Johnson," said one witness, who asked not to be identified for fear of having to hire a lawyer. "While we were still reeling from the lurid disclosure, she launched into further details about her affair with 'Hubie,' painting a deplorably vivid picture of the former vice president sitting on the edge of the love bed in black knee socks, weeping. 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' it wasn't."
Author Kitty Kelley--who once won a $41,407 court judgment against Goldberg, her former literary agent--told us that she, too, remembers the Johnson boasts. "Yes, I recall the Lyndon stuff, but we always thought she was merely flattering herself. She used to tell us all about her affairs. Lucianne was like a guy in the sense that it just wasn't believable."
When we shared our memory with Goldberg yesterday, she denied that she'd had an affair with Humphrey--or that she ever claimed she'd had one. But she did make that claim, we insisted. "Then you're just going to have to write that it's not true and that I said it's not true. That's my comment on it," she replied. "I don't know how any of this is relevant in the context of my bringing an action." Toobin, meanwhile, lamented: "I'm ashamed that I missed the Hubert Humphrey angle."<<
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