Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American version of the Profumo scandal comes from the White House, the future of this nation requires some truthful and objective answers. If the 1959 morals arrest that is now revealed indicates Jenkins' vulnerability to Soviet blackmail during these years, and if this dangerous fact has been concealed by President Johnson, then the fitness of this Administration not only to govern but to defend this nation from its enemies must be examined...
...Peepholes. On Oct. 7, the evening of his arrest, Jenkins went to a party given by Newsweek magazine to celebrate its move into a new office, 1½ blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Jenkins was in good spirits. He had one or two highballs, chatted about his family, particularly nine-year-old Lyndon and his newspaper route. President Johnson, who usually discourages his men from attending cocktail parties, was away that night, barnstorming in Iowa and Illinois. Soon after 8 p.m., Jenkins left, ostensibly for the White House...
...that night the cops spotted Jenkins in a pay toilet with Andy Choka, 60, a Hungarian-born veteran of the U.S. Army who lives in Washington's Soldiers' Home. Jenkins' back partly obstructed the detectives' view, but they figured they had seen enough to arrest the two men for a misdemeanor, if not for a more serious morals...
Jenkins and Choka were booked. Since the police had a full set of prints from Jenkins' arrest in 1959, only a thumbprint was taken. At the central cell block in the basement, Jenkins paid a $50 bond and was freed. Forfeiture of the bond is, in effect, a waiver of the right to trial but not a confession of guilt...
Real Trouble. Only two days after Jenkins' arrest, anonymous tipsters began advising newspapers that there was an interesting item on the Oct. 7 blotter of the morals squad. The tips were widely dispersed: a man from Pravda even showed up for a peek. At least one of the tips was traced to the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Republican National Committee was known to be on to the story. Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams said he heard of the case several days before it got into print...