Arnaud de Borchgrave and his wife, Alexandra, were universally regarded as a “power couple” — not just in Washington, but in international circles as well.
Arnaud, who died in 2015 at age 88, was a whirlwind journalist who knew world leaders including Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and the Shah of Iran — as well as four U.S. presidents.
As the globe-trotting correspondent for Newsweek and later the editor of The Washington Times, he landed exclusive interviews with all of them and even found time to write a bestselling novel, “The Spike,” about KGB disinformation. Ronald Reagan was famously photographed reading the book on Air Force One.
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