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==Dirty tricks and civil rights violations==
==Dirty tricks and civil rights violations==
Two weeks before the [[1964 presidential election]] Johnson instructed Bill Moyers to transmit an order to the FBI to run checks on numerous members of Goldwater's campaign and [[Senate]] staffs in an effort to obtain derogatory information about their possible sexual aberrations. What Johnson was looking for, Moyers told the FBI, was information about "fags" on Goldwater's staff.<ref>
Two weeks before the [[1964 presidential election]] Johnson instructed Bill Moyers to transmit an order to the FBI to run checks on numerous members of Goldwater's campaign and [[Senate]] staffs in an effort to obtain derogatory information about their possible sexual aberrations. What Johnson was looking for, Moyers told the FBI, was information about "fags" on Goldwater's staff.<ref>Eric F. Goldman, ''The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson'', Dell, 1969, p. 299 </ref>
Eric F. Goldman, ''The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson'', Dell, 1969, p. 299 </ref>
Moyer's blind sycophantic loyalty and williness to engage in illegal activity and dirty tricks for to President Johnson earned him the reputation among [[White House]] peers as the president's "hit man", an "@$&-kisser", and "Elmer Gantry." Moyer's hyperbolic and demagogic style is remembered in the ''Daisy girl'' ad which he takes credit for. A lttle girl is incinerated by a hydrogen bomb.
==PBS harangues==
==PBS harangues==