Spence arrived in Washington D.C. in the late 70sMichael Hedges and Jerry Seper, "Power broker served drugs, sex at parties bugged for blackmail" The Washington Times June 30, 1989 and soon become a fixture of Washington high society leading to a 1982 feature in the New York Times which remarked that Spence's "personal phone book and party guest lists constitute a Who's Who in Congress, Government and journalism."Phil Gailey,, HAVE NAMES, WILL OPEN RIGHT DOORS, New York Times, 18 January 1982 Guests at Spence's lavish parties were known to include William Safire, John N. Mitchell, Phyllis Schlafly, James Lilley, Alfred M. Gray, Joseph diGenova, and Roy Cohn.
