The Washington Post rummages through the old files to discover that the FBI was investigating former Motion Picture Association president Jack Valenti while he was working in the Johnson administration. The suspicion? Valenti was gay.

Predating the modern predilection of the left to out gay Washington officials (if they're Republicans), Bill Moyer, fabulously rich teet-sucker of the Public Broadcasting Corporation and noted liberal conspiracy kook, was a gung ho gay man hunter.

Even Bill Moyers, a White House aide now best known as a liberal television commentator, is described in the records as seeking information on the sexual preferences of White House staff members. Moyers said by e-mail yesterday that his memory is unclear after so many years but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover.

Yeah, I'll bet his memory is unclear.