Naomi Nover (née Goll; December 25, 1910 – April 22, 1995) was an American journalist who was a longtime member of the White House Press Corps remembered for her combative, and sometimes abusive, relationship with other journalists. Early life and education Naomi Goll was born in Buffalo, New York and attended the University at Buffalo. She taught school in Buffalo, and worked at the Buffalo Times. In 1934 she married Buffalo News columnist Barnet Nover and, in 1936, moved with him to Washington, D.C. where he had been hired as a reporter for The Washington Post. In Washington, she earned a master's degree in education from George Washington University and taught at Washington's Murch Elementary School. In 1947, Barnet Nover was hired as Washington bureau chief of the Denver Post, a position he held until his 1971 retirement. Following retirement, Barnet Nover kept his foreign policy column going through syndication. Later life After Barnet Nover's 1973 death, Naomi Nover attempted to take over his column; however, soon no newspapers were carrying it. Despite this, Nover continued to renew the White House press pass and congressional press gallery pass that had originally been issued to her late husband, attending White House press briefings and other media events in the Washington area. According to Foreign Policy, Nover "paid her own way on nearly every presidential trip abroad until her death in 1995 despite never actually doing any reporting". In 1976, Nover financially endowed the Washington Press Club's Barnet Nover Memorial Award, named after her late husband. According to Marlin Fitzwater, in 1988 Naomi Nover also donated a refrigerator in Barnet Nover's memory to the White House Briefing Room, which was subsequently used to store turkey sandwiches and soft drinks. Over a period of years the door of the Nover memorial refrigerator stopped functioning and rust developed on it, until it was finally removed sometime prior to 1995. In later life, she was said to have physically resembled George Washington. Relationship with other journalists Nover was known to be physically and verbally abusive towards journalists and others. While part of the press gaggle accompanying President of the United States Ronald Reagan to Xian, China, she pushed a Chinese guard with her umbrella who had blocked her path. The confrontation was deescalated when Detroit News correspondent Gary Schuster displayed a United States dollar to the guard and implied that the portrait of George Washington