The story must be true, It seems the story was being tolded around Washington D.C., for quite awhile...Its' like the Dodd/"Swimmer" "Waitress Sandwich" story...They (the Democrats) seem to use these stories, to glorified their "power" in Washington, by impugning, the mores of the Country-at-large, like Bubba Klintoon did, in the '90s.
..tolded = told..