Maxine Cheshire, Who Chronicled Beltway Scandals, Dies at 90
A star society reporter for The Washington Post, she was the scourge of presidents, foreign operatives and philandering politicians.
Maxine Cheshire in the early 1960s. Her Washington Post society column was required reading across the Beltway and beyond.Credit.The Washington Post, via the Cheshire family
Published Feb. 8, 2021Updated Feb. 11, 2021
The first time Maxine Cheshire encountered Jacqueline Kennedy, then a young senator’s wife, at the Democratic National Convention in 1956, Mrs. Kennedy ran away, setting in motion a pattern that would continue throughout the years that Ms. Cheshire covered her as a star society reporter at The Washington Post.