Aaron Latham, Screenwriter and Husband of Lesley Stahl, Dies at 78
thewrap.comLatham worked as a reporter at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Esquire among other publications during his long career.
In 1973, he was covering the Watergate scandals for New York Magazine when he first met Stahl, who was also covering the Nixon Administration for CBS.
In a 1977 People Magazine article, Latham recalled how Stahl yelled at for calling her outside of office hours for questions about Watergate.
The two met and discussed political news whenever Latham was in Washington, but the two did not become romantically involved until after Nixon’s resignation. “Suddenly we started seeing something different from what we had been seeing,” Stahl told People. “Almost like the old story of the boss who marries his secretary after 35 years.” Latham and Stahl married in 1977.In the decades after, Latham used his personal life and his stories as the basis for novels and screenplays.
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