That day, president Johnson asked the CIA to pull all gossip and dirt on Eartha Kitt. They compiled a dossier of every rumor surrounding her upbringing and how she became famous, and they blacklisted her privately as a “sadistic nymphomaniac.” They released the dossier to Broadway, to the cabarets she performed at, to every venue that made her who she was, and she had no idea that a man criminalized her sexuality, to ruin her career, because she did not agree with him.