Why? I trusted Dave—nicknamed Goldie—to tell me the truth whenever I called him, and I cannot say that about a lot of people I cover. It was hard not to feel affection for someone who was such a mensch. In a eulogy about him, I noted: “That is exactly the word you would use to describe Dave—a Yiddish term that means a person of integrity and honor, a stand-up guy, someone to admire and emulate, a rock of humanity.”
