BTW, Jack Anderson is one of my favorite true journalists. I miss his missives.
If you knew the whole truth about Jack Anderson (and Drew Pearson and his boss Barnes), you'd puke.
Anderson was a lying SOB, and a draft-dodger during WW2.
He regularly published pure Communist/Soviet propaganda/disinformation, and refused to correct it when it was pointed out to him.
He totally lied about the true Marxist nature of the Sandinista factions during their fight against Somoza, characterizing two of the three factions as minor (both were hardcore Maoist oriented), while proclaiming that the Tereceristas of the Ortega brothers/Borge (the murderer) was NOT marxist. He was wrong all the way around.
Even a fool gets something right once in a while, but Anderson was an ego with a column and not interested in the welfare of America.