Hello and welcome to Whistle Stop, a podcast of campaign curiosities. I'm John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation.

It's October. Surprise! The 2016 presidential campaign has had an October surprise. Of course,

you're supposed to have one of them, what this entire month of October has felt like a surprise

in the campaign of 2016. The latest thing to jump out from behind the curtain is the decision by

FBI director Comey to announce

that his team of investigators have a new batch of emails that might or might not shed light on

the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of her private server.

The new information was contained on a laptop owned by the husband of Hillary Clinton's

right-hand woman, Huma Abidine, her husband, Anthony Wiener,

former congressman, who is at this date under investigation for sending explicit texts to a 15-year-old.

Now, everyone hearing this knows these details, but at times with this election, you get the

feeling that you're at the beginning of a dark period in

history people in the future in some post-apocalyptic world will replay the tapes of what happened in

2016 as they look for the initiating event into into what led to the apocalypse so when they're doing

so in some mountain cave in 2242 i just want to make sure that there is an accurate record

of what happened. But that's not our topic today. The topic of close AIDS, October surprises,

the FBI, and the whiff of scandal is reminding me of an abandoned in 1964 presidential race. There was an October

surprise disclosed it a little bit about the same time, a tiny bit earlier in the race. A close

aide to Lyndon Johnson. Walter Jenkins, as close as Huma Abidon, was caught in a scandal that ignited

a conversation in the campaign about homosexuality, moral behavior, investigative tactics, Cold War

fears of national security lapses, and solicited a response from LBJ at the end that would make

Donald Trump proud. And there's also another element of the response that LBJ had that could

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