Word: valenti
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Some old Johnson hands have be gun reappearing. Former White House Aide Jack Valenti, now the $125,000-a-year president of the Motion Picture Association of America, contributed a Washington Post article deploring the "holy regard" among Americans for a President's "charisma." Wrote Valenti: "The only two modern figures who could be truly said to possess magic charisma, whose voice and person cast a spell over their countrymen and whom people followed blindly and exultingly were the two largest tyrants of our age, Hitler and Mussolini." Somehow, he overlooked such charismatic non-tyrants as Churchill and Gandhi...
...graceful goodbye is not one of Lyndon Johnson's fortes. In the past three years, several dozen of his top aides and administrators-including such onetime prodigies and proteges as Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti, Robert McNamara and Gardner Ackley-have resigned or been reassigned. And often the manner of their going has left an aftertaste of malice and misunderstanding...
...President has undeniably failed in some signal tests of executive performance. He has not built a genuine "Johnson team." Curiously, more first-rank Kennedy men have stuck it out with him than have the men whom he himself brought into the Government, notably Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, George Reedy. Johnson, moreover, has failed to perform the crucial executive function of charting a clear course for the future. One top economist complains that Johnson's close-to-the-vest method of operation, perfected during 24 years in Congress, has left major institutions stumbling around in the dark on vital policy...
...tolerably good condition. His judgment is reinforced by the cables and memos that reach his desk. From a sheaf of papers, he will recite encouraging tidings from his military advisers, a favorable report from Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker on the South Vietnamese election campaign, a note from Jack Valenti assuring him of his popularity. Mrs. Johnson dropped in during one such discourse recently. "That's not what I read in the papers!" she exclaimed...
...office news was bullish at home too, as Valenti issued an annual report-his first and the association's first since 1956. Items...