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Among the dozen men who serve as Special Assistants to the President, none rates higher in loyalty and devotion than ex-Houston Advertising Man Jack Valenti. If there was ever any doubt about that, Valenti surely dispelled it last week in an extraordinary 3,000-word speech on "The President and the Presidency" before the Advertising Federation of America in Boston. Excerpts...
...with far smaller bags beneath his eyes. He went out of his way to be solicitous of his staff. He was, quite frankly, resentful of reports (TIME, Nov. 20) that many staffers wanted out from under the pressures that he put upon them. He noted that Aide Jack Valenti, who he once said "gets up with me every morning," now does not arrive at the White House until nearly 9 a.m. He let it be known that his staffers could attend a State Department farewell cocktail party for longtime Presidential Assistant Ralph Dungan, who has been named Ambassador to Chile...
...Jack Valenti, the Man Friday most often seen whispering into Lyndon's ear, has professed that he would like to get back to Texas to make some money...
...days after John Kennedy's assassination, a White House staff member phoned the CIA and requested immediate top-security clearance for four Johnson men who would be "in on everything"-Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, George Reedy, and Walter Jenkins. The CIA, responsible for such clearances whenever intelligence documents are involved, suggested a full FBI field investigation for all four...
...assistants. One check eliminated a possible appointee to Ike's personal staff on the ground of perversion just before Eisenhower's inauguration. Kennedy, in his turn, ran checks on some aides, but not all. But in 1963, when the CIA suggested field investigations on Johnson Aides Moyers, Valenti, Reedy and Jenkins, there was a long, hostile silence on the White House end of the phone. The CIA, lacking legal authority to require investigations of presidential staffers, had no alternative but to give the four men top clearance...