I smell a cooked up HIT PIECE with a nice misquote of his wife to add a special flavor.
The Columbia rag is a dedicated left wing Dem propaganda sheet stocked full of recent lobotomized journalism student leftists from USC Columbia.
I agree with you, the paper misquoted her. Her and their sons are on vacation at the beach and he took off for some time to catch up on work. The people who need to know where he is do, including his wife.