The Press: Bill & Kay & Martha & WETA

Even without a subpoena, Attorney General John Mitchell would probably testify that wives can get husbands into trouble. Last week, in fact, Martha Mitchell got a husband into trouble—and he was not even her own husband. It seems that Martha's new press secretary, Kay Woestendiek, is married to a man in the Liberal Eastern news media. Or, rather, Bill Woestendiek was in the media, as the editor of a news program on Washington's public TV station WETA. After Kay joined Martha, he lost that post.

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