[Verginius Rufus]

According to the Who's Who entry, Joe and Jackie were married in 1986...so why was the NYT running a photo of their wedding in 1990? Was it a story about the crisis in Iraq in the run-up to Desert Storm? He was, as we have been told repeatedly, the last American diplomat to meet with Saddam before the Gulf War.

I wonder what kind of advice he was sending to Washington back then. Peace at any price?

[Fedora]

Yes, it was a story about the Gulf Crisis. It included the wedding photo with a caption as background, and probably to add a human interest angle to the story.

I don't know what advice he gave Washington, but his supervisor April Glaspie has been criticized for not being firm enough in delivering Washington's warnings to Saddam, and when Wilson speaks on Glaspie he defends her and speaks of trying to "correct" the historical record on her, which comes across as defending himself. It seems to be a sore spot for Wilson.