Editing Jack Valenti (section)

===Politics===
[[File:Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office, November 1963.jpg|thumb|300px|Valenti (far left) was present at Lyndon B. Johnson's swearing in aboard [[Air Force One]].]]

Valenti served as liaison with the news media during President [[John F. Kennedy]] and Vice President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s November 22, 1963, visit to [[Dallas]], Texas, and Valenti was in the presidential motorcade. Following the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of President Kennedy]], Valenti was present at Johnson's swearing-in aboard [[Air Force One]], and flew with him to Washington. He then became the first "special assistant" to Johnson's [[White House]] and lived there for the first two months of Johnson's presidency.<ref>{{cite book|title=This Time, This Place|url=https://archive.org/details/thistimethisplac00vale|url-access=registration|first=Jack|last=Valenti|year=2007|publisher=Crown Publishers |isbn=9780307346643 }}</ref> In 1964, Johnson gave Valenti the responsibility to handle relations with the Republican Congressional leadership, particularly [[Gerald Ford]] and [[Charles A. Halleck]] from the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]], and the [[United States Senate|Senate]]'s [[Everett Dirksen]].<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/opinion/24valenti.html | title= The Best of Enemies | last=Valenti | first=Jack |date= June 24, 2005 | access-date=August 24, 2009| work=The New York Times}}</ref>

Valenti later called Johnson "the most single dominating human being that I've ever been in contact with" and "the single most intelligent man I've ever known".<ref>[http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-9ce4c1-interview-with-jack-valenti-1981 "Interview with Jack Valenti, 1981".] April 23, 1981. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved November 3, 2010.</ref> In a speech before the [[American Advertising Federation]] in 1965, Valenti said: "I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president."<ref name="Thomas Mallon 2007"/><ref>Address before the Advertising Federation of America convention, Boston, Massachusetts (June 28, 1965); published in the Congressional Record (July 7, 1965) Vol. 111, Appendix, p. A3583</ref>

Valenti later criticized film director [[Oliver Stone]] for the 1991 film ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]''. He called the film a "monstrous charade" and said, "I owe where I am today to Lyndon Johnson. I could not live with myself if I stood by mutely and let some filmmaker soil his memory."<ref>Bernard Weinraub, "Valenti Calls 'J.F.K.' 'Hoax' and 'Smear'", ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 2, 1992.</ref>