Posted on 07/22/2005 12:44:16 PM PDT by radar101
Only a few weeks before the 1964 election, a powerful presidential assistant, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a men's room in Washington. Evidently, the president was concerned that Barry Goldwater would use that against him in the election. Another assistant, Bill Moyers, was tasked to direct Hoover to do an investigation of Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity. Mr. Moyers' memo to the FBI was in one of the files.
When the press reported this, I received a call in my office from Mr. Moyers. He was outraged; he claimed that this was another example of the Bureau salting its files with phony CIA memos. There was a pause on the line and then he said, "I was very young. How will I explain this to my children?" And then he rang off. I thought to myself that a number of the Watergate figures, some of whom the department was prosecuting, were very young, too.
It was not only Republicans that Johnson targeted with the FBI. He must have been obsessed with the Kennedy political threat because he used the bureau to determine whether officials in his administration were too close to Robert Kennedy. Ironically, one of his White House assistants, whom he inherited from JFK and was a particular subject of this sort of surveillance, is now married to LBJ's biographer. I refer to Richard Goodwin, the husband of Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Some of Johnson's suspicions of the Kennedys were rather amusing. He became convinced that the Washington Star was secretly owned by the Kennedy family and that is why he received less favorable coverage from the Star than from the Post. Hoover plaintively tried to explain that the Star was owned by the Kauffmann family and that they were Republicans.
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It has been gone for what seems like centuries...
Moyers? What, objectivity? What objectivity?
I don't have to read about what Moyers did in 1964 to know he's slime.
This is the fourth time this has been posted.
PLEASE search the title.
Moyers is the personification of what is wrong with American liberalism. He's a self-serving, lying, ass-kissing, fake-Christian, military-hating, lying, (did I say lying?) SOB.
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