Talk:Walter Jenkins

Seeking sources
Al Weisel wrote an article about Jenkins and LBJ that incldues some interesting material but is often vague about sources. I intend to use some material that Weisel says comes from the FBI's interview with Jenkins. But some material is unsourced, so I hesitate to use the details. I wonder if anyone can confirm them from other sources that do not rely on Weisel. It reads like the sources are oral histories. Here are excerpts:


 * [Joseph] Califano says, "I heard Johnson say often that when he left the White House there were two things he was going to do: He was going to start smoking again, and he was going to throw his arms around Walter Jenkins and hug him. And he did it. He started smoking on the plane on the way back, and he met Walter Jenkins at the airport in Texas." Until his death in 1973, just days before the Paris peace accords ended America's involvement in the Vietnam War, Johnson never again turned his back on his old friend. Jenkins was a frequent guest at the LBJ ranch, where the former president spent the last years of his life, presiding over meetings of ranch hands instead of cabinet officers.


 * One day at the ranch, [Liz] Carpenter [press secretary to the First Lady] recalls, the retired president was relaxing with a group of friends, including Jenkins. Oddly, he had begun to look like the hippies whose protests against the war had driven him out of office, letting his white hair grow long until it curled down to his shoulders. The burdens of office lifted, he seemed momentarily at peace. "It's worth being out of office," Johnson remarked, "to have Walter back with us."

Source: LBJ's Gay Sex Scandal, Out, December 1999, 76-131

Thanks. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 18:09, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

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