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> | 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> |