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CAREER Her career started at the Washington Post in 1957 followed by a year working at the Democratic National Committee in 1960. She became a consultant to the White House staff under President Kennedy in 1961 for two years. She set up Cummings and Associates in 1963. Decades later, Jeffrey Toobin 's book '' A Vast Conspiracy '' alleged that Goldberg claimed to friends that she had an affair with Lyndon Johnson while working in the White House. After Goldberg threatened Random House with a Libel suit, a ''Washington Post'' writer claimed he and others overheard her bragging about an affair with Vice President Hubert Humphrey as well. Goldberg denied both affairs and denied telling any such stores. In 1966, she married Sidney Goldberg, an editor at the news syndicate North American Newspaper Alliance and Lucianne Goldberg did occasional freelance work for the syndicate. During the 1972 presidential campaign she joined the press corps covering candidate George McGovern , claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service , an affiliate of NANA. In fact, she was paid $1000 a week by Richard Nixon operative Murray Chotiner for regular reports about happenings on the campaign trail. She said "They were looking for really dirty stuff...Who was sleeping with who, what the Secret Service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane--that sort of thing." Goldberg set up her own literary agency in 1972. One of her clients, celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley , sued Goldberg in 1983 , charging breach of contract, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty over proceeds from Kelley's book on Elizabeth Taylor . The jury awarded Kelley $60,000, but the judge reduced the award to $40,000 and dismissed the ruling of fraud. She published her first book, ''Purr Baby Purr'', in 1970, which was a critique of feminism. Goldberg started writing a column called "Footlights of Broadway", syndicated by NANA. Goldberg published her first novel ,''Friends in High Places'' co-written with Sondra Robinson , in 1979. Her first solo novel ''Madame Cleo's Girls'', a story of three call girls, was published in 1992, followed by ''People Will Talk'' in 1994. Goldberg has also been a Ghostwriter of, among other works, Maureen Dean 's (wife of Watergate figure John Dean ) steamy novel ''Washington Wives'' ( 1987 ). CLINTON SCANDAL Goldberg met Linda Tripp in the early part of the Clinton administration while assisting an author write a book on Vince Foster . Tripp spoke with Goldberg resulting in Lewinsky bringing the tapes to her in 1997. Goldberg also urged Tripp to take the tapes to Kenneth Starr and brought the tapes to the attention of people working on the Paula Jones case. She started speaking to reporters about the tapes in the fall of 1997 notably Michael Isikoff of '' Newsweek ''. Within days of the scandal breaking on the Drudge Report , the Democratic National Committee circulated an "information sheet" to reporters with information intended to damage Goldberg. Goldberg spoke at an anti-Clinton rally organised by the Free Republic . Although Goldberg was deeply involved in the Lewinsky scandal, Starr never subpoenaed her to testify in front of the Grand Jury , which may indicate that Starr and Goldberg were colluding. COMMENTATOR Following the impeachment scandal, Goldberg launched a conservative discussion , prompting them to pull their advertising from the site. Lane also claimed that the US Navy , the Red Cross , Weight Watchers , Sylvan Learning Centers , and United Airlines have pulled their ads. {Link without Title} Goldberg also launched a Talk Radio program. FAMILY Goldberg's first marriage, to her high school sweetheart William Cummings, lasted three years before they separated in 1960. In 1966 she married Sidney Goldberg, an executive with a New York features syndicate; he died in 2005. Goldberg is the mother of Political Commentator Jonah Goldberg and Joshua Goldberg. REFERENCES
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