homophobia and concern with gays and government continued most famously with president johnson in the walter jenkins episode, when johnson's longtime aide was arrested on a morals charge in a washington, d.c. ymca men's room. this incident led to a wider effort to screen administration and white house employees and even potential white house entertainment to find any gays, highlighting the long life of the lavender scare. anti-gay politics continued with nixon, who uniquely and unsurprisingly took it to nastier levels. nixon would on tape claim to be the most tolerant person in the administration when it came to gays. but he never hesitated to gay-bait or use sexually related information against those he perceived to be his enemies. in november 1970, neck's and ask -- in november 1970, president nexen asked the fbi for quote, a rundown on the homosexuals known or suspected in the washington press corps. he spread gay rumors about his own first secretary of state, william rogers. he called someone he met at a white house function and --an obvious lowering roaring fag, and commented on an archie bunke