Playbill
April, 1981
Last October, when South Carolina Democratic Congressman John Jenrette appeared in front of TV cameras to lament his conviction in the ABSCAM case, his wife, Rita, stood valiantly at his side. For most of us at the time, she was a peripheral image on our TV screens--blonde, demure, attractive, a young politician's wife about to edge into obscurity with her husband. But a few months later, when Rita's memoir. Diary of a Mad Congresswife, appeared in The Washington Post, that judgment was altered....
