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===Walter Jenkins===
===Walter Jenkins===
One month before the 1964 Presidential election, [[White House]] aide Walter Jenkins was arrested for disorderly conduct the men's room of the [[YMCA]], two blocks from the White House. Clifford, who served as a White House lawyer, investigated the incident and advised President Lyndon Johnson who requested Jenkins' resignation
One month before the 1964 Presidential election, [[White House]] Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins was arrested in a pay toilet of the men's room of the [[YMCA]], two blocks from the White House. It was not the first time Jenkins had been
. Jenkins resigned and returned to Texas.
arrested on the same charge. The police had apprehended him in the same washroom in January 1959 in a similar [[homosexual]] episode.
Jenkins called Abe Fortas to say he was in serious trouble. Fortas tried to contact [[Lyndon Johnson]] who was campaigning in [[New York]]. When he was unable to do so, the Fortas acted on his own. He advised Jenkins to check into a hospital in order to be out of reach of reporters. At the same time Fortas and Clifford went to the offices of the ''Washington Post'', ''Washington Star'' and ''Daily News'' to hush up the story. [[United Press International]] however, broke the story. Meanwhile the book at the police station containing the Jenkins' arrest record disappeared. But a photograph of the particular police blotter had been taken.
When the news broke there was public concern over Jenkins' access to classified information and his susceptibility to blackmail. LBJ asked [[FBI]] dire for [[J. Edgar Hoover]] to investigate. LBJ went even further, he told Hoover what the final report should say. Johnson suggested the report should state that Jenkins was overly tired, that he was a good family man and a hard worker, and that he was not "biologically" a homosexual.
Within the week Hoover sent the results of the FBI's "extensive investigation" over to Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. The FBI investigation, said the director, "disclosed no information that Mr. Jenkins has compromised the security or interests of the [[United States]] in any manner." The report, issued two weeks before the election, claimed
that "a favorable appraisal of Mr. Jenkins' loyalty and dedication to the United States was given the FBI by more than three hundred of his associates, both business and social."
===Secretary of Defense===
===Secretary of Defense===