Courtenay Lynda Valenti is the biological daughter of Lyndon Johnson and not Jack Valenti
I have been told by JFK researchers that one of Jack Valenti's daughters is really the biological daughter of Lyndon Johnson who was having an affair with one of his secretaries who married Jack Valenti. Lyndon Johnson who had numerous affairs, including those on the floor of the Oval Office, sure doted on Courtenay as a toddler in the White House. Jack Valenti was the obsequious LBJ aide. Mary Margaret Valenti, a secretary to Lyndon Johnson was she having an affair with LBJ.
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Jack Valenti's wife Mary Margaret Valenti, and daughters Alexandra and Courtenay
Valenti just before the funeral services of Jack Valenti.
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An excellent book to get regarding the JFK assassination is Dog Days at the White House: The Outrageous Memoirs of the Presidential Kennel Keeper by Traphes Bryant. It was published in 1975. http://www.amazon.co...l/dp/002517990X
Traphes Bryant quotes the sex addict John F. Kennedy saying: "I am not through
with a girl till I’ve had her three ways.” [Traphes Bryant, Dog Days at the
White House, p. 38]
Some really good books on the JFK assassination often are those that are not
directly about the 1963 Coup d'Etat, but rather those that give great personal
insights into those involved.
This book gives great insights to the character of the sex addict, John F. Kennedy,
who we know was a compromised, blackmailable man. It also gives good insights
into Lyndon Johnson, a megalomaniac who by definition thinks or wants the world
to revolve around him. Another person who we learn a LOT about is Jack Valenti and
what an obsequious SLAVE to Lyndon Johnson he was. I am now firmly convinced
that Jack Valenti married a the personal secretary of Lyndon Johnson who Lyndon
Johnson got pregnant. This young later is Mary Margaret Wiley, now Mary Margaret
Valenti. She was a real Texas beauty back in her day and a paramour of LBJ.
In books (I can't source them now, probably one of Ron Kessler's) the Secret Service
agents report that one of LBJ's aides used to bring his WIFE into the White
House for Lyndon Johnson to have sex with. I think this aide was Jack Valenti
who was basically pimping his wife out to Lyndon Johnson.
A "yes man" really does not adequately describe what a bootlicker
Jack Valenti was for LBJ. I really think Jack Valenti would lick peanut butter off
the floor if Lyndon Johnson wanted him to.
Jack Valenti, CFR member, is important later because he was one of the key architects
in the media attempting to cover up the JFK assassination. Many folks know that
Valenti as head of the Motion Picture Association helped to get the episodes 7,8,9
of The Men Who Killed Kennedy banned from the History Channel because they got
so close to the truth of Lyndon Johnson's role in the JFK assassination. What folks
don't know is that Valenti was the one orchestrating the media attacks on JFK the
movie by Oliver Stone in 1991. The CIA/CFR assets in the US media were
attacking that movie long before it came and often since its release. Jack
Valenti was absolutely one of the leaders of that CIA/CFR assault on the movie JFK.
“Dog Days at the White House: The Outrageous
Memoirs of the Presidential Kennel Keeper” by Traphes Bryant on Lyndon Johnson,
Courtenay Valenti, Jack Valenti, Mary Margaret Valenti
“Courtney was the
most special child to come to the White House. She absolutely ruled the President
and could make him “fetch and carry”any time she wanted to. The President gave
special orders to be informed any time she came to see her daddy, LBJ’s special
assistant, which was often.
Courtney’s
mother, Mary Margaret, started out as LBJ’s receptionist in his Texas office
when he was U.S. senator and then came to Washington as his personal secretary.
She was the real beauty of the LBJ gang, and when she came to visit the White
House, she rated extra kisses and a real fuss was made over her by the President.
The President liked to relax in his office just sitting around talking to Mary
Margaret.
Everyone
was amazed when Mary Margaret – who was Mary Margaret Wiley – suddenly married
Jack Valenti. Except those who say LBJ engineered the marriage. Maybe he wanted
to keep her in the family. To him, Mary Margaret and Courtney were a family.
Time and
time again LBJ would tell me to look out for Courtney. To be good to Courtney.
To protect Courtney. To keep Blanco away from Courtney. Once he said, “You let
anything happen to Courtney and I’ll hang your hide on the barn door.” In other
words, the President liked that child.”
[Traphes Bryant, Dog Days at the White House: The Outrageous
Memoirs of the presidential Kennel Keeper, 123-124]
“And I read in the newspapers that when LBJ died, with something
like $25 million in his estate, he left his brother only a token gift - $25,000.
That is
only a little more than he left Mary Margaret Valenti, mother of his beloved little
Courtney, or that he left his trusted secretary Mary Rather.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 132]
The President held up Valenti’s little girl, Courtney, and told
her, “Look honey, here comes Bryant, Blanco and Him.” She wanted to play with
the dogs. She led Blanco on a leash while I kept an eye on him. I made Blanco
sit, and she petted Him. Then she hugged Blanco and called him “Blink.” Her Daddy
pointed to the beagle and she said, “Him.” Valenti then pointed to the
President and Courtney said, “Prez.” LBJ beamed ear to ear and kissed her nose.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 142]
“As I was taking the pups into the
Bouquet Room, President Johnson stopped and petted the pups. I told the
President Courtney was playing with the pups but she had just left. The President
was furious. “Why didn’t they let me know Courtney was here?”
He was really
upset. “Damn it, I am supposed to be notified.” The President loved Courtney just
as much as his own Luci and Lynda Bird – he once called her, “my little girl,
my little heartbeat” – and certainly spent more time with her when she was around
than with his big, busy daughters.
On almost
any excuse, the President had Valenti or his wife bring Courtney to the White House
and the President thoroughly relaxed as he played with the child, catering to
her every whim.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 155]
On 2/23/1966: The President
greeted the Veep. Valenti’s secretary told Courtney to go see Daddy, who was on
the helicopter. Courtney didn’t see her daddy as she ran toward the President,
who lifted her up.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 157]
3/2/1966: Courtney and her pups had their picture made. The
President never gets tired of posing with Courtney. I told Mrs. Valenti that I wanted
a picture of Courtney, the President, and pups. She said she would get me one.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 158]
4/1/1966 The Prez came
out of his office and played with Courtney. Then he took her back in. One of
the pups gave her a kiss; she wiped it off her coat. The President gave the dogs
some dog candy in his office. Courtney got jealous, closed the candy drawer on
the President’s desk, and said, “That’s all.” She didn’t want the pups getting the
Prez’s attention.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 159]
Toward the end of Luci’s [wedding] reception the President got
a little wistful because it was almost time for his daughter to leave on her
honeymoon.
The Prez stood with a bemused look on his face on the Truman Balcony, with little
Courtney in his arms, surveying the mob below.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 169]
8/15/1966 The Prez
returned from Texas. He held Courtney at the window while they were landing so
she could see Blanco and Beagle. The President carried her off the helicopter.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 170]
3/12/67 Now the dogs have two doghouses with electric heat and a floodlight. The Prez showed it
all to little Courtney. Courtney liked it. LBJ liked it.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 179]
I realized I was stuck with Blanco and that I would have to
protect everyone from the dog, especially Lyndon’s beloved Courtney. Luckily,
little Courtney somehow had gotten through to Blanco, and she was about the only
one besides Luci who could lead him around by the nose. I think Blanco liked Courtney
almost as much as the President did. But I still watched the two pretty
carefully as they romped about, remembering Lyndon’s warning that if anything
happened to that little girl, he’d have my hide on the barn door. He would have,
too.
[Dog Days at the White House, p. 187-188]
The Importance of
Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti; LBJ's fave mistress knows the Deep, Dark Secrets
of Lyndon Johnson
Alive today in
2012 at age 79
Mary Margaret
Wiley Valenti may have been the most critical and important mistress of Lyndon Baines
Johnson. This is not well known. Well, you need to learn it now. She is probably
even more important than Madeleine Duncan Brown who I think is very important.
Lyndon Johnson was born 8/27/1908. Mary Margaret Wiley was born in 1932. I do
not know exactly what year she met LBJ. I do not know what year they started
their affair.
A pure guess would be 1955 when LBJ was age 47 and she was age 23. That is a guess.
Lyndon Johnson, according to Ronald Kessler was having sex with 5 of his 8
secretaries when he was VP or president. A local lawyer in Austin, TX told me
that LBJ's first question before he hired a secretary was "Does she shuck
her drawers?"
Mary Margaret Wiley was the fave mistress of LBJ. She was in Los Angeles at the
1960 Democratic convention where Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn blackmailed/strongarmed/intimidated
John Kennedy into putting LBJ on the ticket as VP. This is something John
Kennedy had absolutely NO intentions of doing. That occurred on the night of
July 13, 1960. Mary Margaret Wiley was there while all this was going on.
Mary Margaret
Wiley Valenti also gave birth to a daughter Courtenay Lynda Valenti 3 weeks before
the JFK assassination. Courtenay "Lynda" Valenti is named after LBJ
and (short of a DNA test) is almost certainly the daughter of Lyndon Johnson.
Courtenay
Lynda Valenti was born 3 weeks before the JFK assassination in early November,
1963, as per Jack Valenti's autobiography.
Ronald Kessler in his book on the Secret Service reports that one of Lyndon
Johnson's friends was letting his wife into the White House to have sex with
Lyndon Johnson. My educated guess is that person is Jack Valenti.
So the bottom line is this: Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti is ALIVE today in the
year 2012 and there is NO DOUBT in my mind that she knows and holds many deep,
dark secrets of Lyndon Johnson. She may even have critical knowledge of the JFK
assassination. Mary Margaret would certainly have a lot of inside info from the
Johnson angle on what was happening at the 1960 Democratic convention.
Jack Valenti, before he died, spent decades as one of the most active media
cover up artists of the JFK assassintion.
That is why Mary Margaret Valenti is so important. She is age 79 today in the
year 2012 and will be 80 later this year. She has tremendous amounts of insider
knowledge regarding Lyndon Johnson.
Harry McPherson
on Mary Margaret Valenti
A "confidante"
to Lyndon Johnson
Robert Morrow 3/28/12:
Harry McPherson
was a key insider and assistant to Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He began work
with him in 1956 and later served in key posts under Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson.
He wrote a book "A Political Education: A Washington Memoir:" http://www.amazon.co...32994231&sr=1-1
In it he mentions Mary Margaret Valenti. He also mentions the JFK assassination.
He talks about tear being shed on the day of the JFK assassination by a Col.
John Sitterson while he was in Tokyo.
Then McPherson
writes: "The Johnsons were there because Bill Baxter's ministry had attracted
Mrs. Johnson and Mary Margaret Valenti, a lovely woman who had served Johnson
as secretary and confidante." [McPherson, "A Political
Education," p. 214]
QUOTE
And came again, two days later at St. Mark’s in
Washington. The Johnsons were there because Bill Baxter’s ministry had
attracted Mrs. Johnson and Mary Margaret Valenti, a lovely woman who had served
Johnson as secretary and confidante
UNQUOTE
[Harry McPherson, A Political Education, p. 214]
[The truth is Mary Margaret Wiley was LBJ’s longtime secretary
and #1 mistress while he was the Senate Majority Leader and Vice President. LBJ
had his toady aide Jack Valenti marry Mary Margaret in June, 1962, to cover up
his adultery because he thought the Kennedys would use it against him. Jack Valenti
let LBJ keep having sex with his “wife” and Mary Margaret because pregnant with
LBJ’s child and had a daughter with him Courtenay Lynda Valenti who was named after
LBJ and as of the year 2020 was sitting on the board of trustees of the LBJ Foundation.]
I hope folks
understand the significance of this. Mary Margaret Valenti (nee Wiley) was a
CONFIDANTE of Lyndon Johnson and she is being described as such by Harry McPherson,
who was one of LBJ's closest CONFIDANTES. Harry McPherson died recently in 2012.
Mary Margaret Valenti is alive today. She was born in 1932. LBJ was born in
1908. She would be about age 79 today. I should not have to point out how IMPORTANT
her oral history could be. Incredibly important; there is no telling what
insights she could give into the Lyndon Johnson and the politics of the time.
Mary Margaret, at age 27, was in Los Angeles for the Democratic national convention,
and all the strongarming of JFK that went on by LBJ and Sam Rayburn. She was at
the LBJ residence, The Elms, the night of the JFK assassination, and gave LBJ a
kiss as he came in the door.
Her daughter, Courtenay Lynda Valenti, was born 3 weeks before the JFK assassination
and became LBJ's "baby in the White House."
Someone needs to contact her and ask if she would give her oral history. And if
she has given it already, then by all means give some more oral history. She is
that important. She could be a key to unlocking the JFK assassination.
We know what Lyndon Johnson told Madeleine Brown; LBJ was spending far, far, far
more time with Mary Margaret Wiley. He was seeing her every day as she worked
in his Washington, DC Senate office.
She was, as much as Lady Bird, there for everything.
Mary Margaret Wiley, close LBJ aide/girlfriend,
at the 1960 Democratic convention – later married Jack Valenti
“As befitted
my role of spear carrier at that time, I was not mingling with LBJ, Sam
Rayburn, John Connally, or any other big shots. Mary Margaret, my future wife,
was there with Mrs. Johnson, in the majority leader’s suite. She was privy to some
fascinating pieces of history as LBJ greeted Sam Rayburn, senators, congressmen,
and other luminaries including Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post
and a Johnson supporter.
I
sat with other serfs and vassals in front of the TV set up in a large room for
those working on the outer edges of the Johnson campaign. The TV announcer told us that Johnson had accepted an
offer from JFK as his choice for the second spot. It had a stunning impact on
the nation and most emphatically on the Texas delegation. I was caught by
surprise – mind-boggled might be more accurate.”
[Jack Valenti, This Place, This Time, p. 65]
Jack Valenti, who used to let his wife Mary Margaret have sex with
LBJ, blasted Oliver Stone’s movie JFK as “Nazi” propaganda. Valenti’s first
born daughter Courtenay Lynda Valenti (who is the biological daughter of
Lyndon Johnson) in 2021 sits on the board of Trustees of the LBJ Foundation
Valenti
Blasts 'JFK' as Nazi-esque Propaganda (apnews.com)
[“Valenti Blasts ‘JFK’ as Nazi-esque Propaganda,” Associated
Press, 4-2-1992
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jack Valenti, a top film industry official and
former aide to President Johnson, has issued a stinging attack on Oliver
Stone’s film ″JFK,″ comparing it to Nazi propaganda and calling it a ″hoax.″
In a
seven-page statement that Valenti said was unconnected to his role as president
of the Motion Picture Association of America, he tackled Stone’s depiction of a Kennedy assassination
conspiracy that included then-Vice President Johnson.
Valenti, whose association provides
movie ratings, dismissed the film’s allegation of a coverup as ″quackery″
plucked from a ″slag heap of loony theories″ in a book by former New Orleans
prosecutor Jim Garrison.
He called the film a ″hoax″ and a
″smear″ and said: ″In much the same way, young German boys and girls in 1941
were mesmerized by Leni Reifenstahl’s ‘Triumph of the Will’ in which Adolf
Hitler was depicted as a newborn god.″
Garrison,
played by Kevin Costner in ″JFK,″ became obsessed with trying to prove that
Kennedy was killed by conspirators, not by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
″Does any sane human being truly
believe that President Johnson, the Warren Commission members, law enforcement
officers, CIA, FBI, White House aides, and assorted thugs, weirdos, frisbee
throwers, all conspired together as plotters in Garrison’s wacky sightings?″
Valenti asked.
″And then for almost 29 years nothing
leaked? But you have to believe it if you think well of any part of this
accusatory lunacy,″ he said.
Valenti dismissed Garrison’s book as
″hallucinatory bleatings.″
Valenti
told The New York Times, in a story published Thursday, that he withheld his
criticism of ″JFK″ until after the Academy Awards on Monday. ″JFK″ had received
eight nominations, including best picture.
″I
waited to speak out because I didn’t want to do anything which might affect
this picture’s theatrical release or the Oscar balloting,″ Valenti said.
The
movie, which had been nominated for best picture, won two Oscars for technical
achievement.
Stone
told the Times he respected Valenti’s loyalty to Johnson but found ″his
emotional diatribe off the mark.″
″The
overwhelming majority of Americans ... agree with the central thesis of my
film: that President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy which included people
in the government,″ Stone said.
A call seeking comment from
Garrison was not returned.
Karl
Malden, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was away
filming and was unavailable for comment, an assistant said.
Valenti also called the film a
″monstrous charade″ about Johnson that ranks with Soviet revisionist history.
″Mr. Stone hurls at Lyndon Johnson one
of the deadliest slurs one human can lay on another, a charge of accessory to
and an accomplice in a cover-up of the murder of the president of the United
States,″ Valenti said.
Valenti,
who became a special assistant to Johnson immediately following Kennedy’s
assassination Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, cited an intimate knowledge of White
House affairs in rebutting the film’s portrayal of events.
He also defended the members of the
Warren Commission. ″To indict these men of honor, along with Lyndon Johnson, is
vicious, cruel and false.″
LBJ’s biological daughter Courtenay Lynda
Valenti is on the board of trustees for the LBJ Foundation IN 2021
Lyndon Johnson and Mary Margaret Wiley, as told by Air Force One
(and Two) pilot Col. Ralph Albertazzie
"Nor did Johnson make an
effort to hide his fondness for the company of Mary Margaret Wiley, a pretty
secretary who later married another LBJ aide, Jack Valenti. Johnson simply
assumed that everybody understood his love for Lady Bird, and hers for him.
Since there was no question about that in his own mind, he did not expect that
people would see anything amiss with the flirtatious attention he delighted in
paying other women. Lady Bird, secure in her own relationship with him,
tolerated it all with rare good nature and some amusement.
On one occasion,
what normally would have been a quick overnight flight out of Washington unexpectedly
turned into a three-day safari. It was a classic example of Johnsonian whim.
Johnson had flown
to Kansas City, Missouri, to address a Democratic fund-raising dinner. Since it
was supposed to be a quick trip, only a handful of persons accompanied him: an
ever-present pair of Secret Service agents, a military aide, and secretary Mary
Margaret Wiley. Shortly after LBJ's arrival, a fire broke out in the kitchen of
the hotel where the dinner was to be held, forcing cancellation of the event.
Albertazzie, who
had given his crew the night off, heard about the blaze on a radio newscast
while visiting friends in Kansas City. He hustled back to the airport, rounded up
the crew, and hurriedly made preparations for what he supposed would be an immediate
return to Washington.
As soon as
Johnson and the others were aboard, Albertazzie started the engines, activated
his Washington-bound flight plan, and contacted the tower. The plane was already
taxiing to the runway when a hand tapped his shoulder. It was LBJ's Air Force
aide. The Vice President, he said, didn't want to go back to Washington. He wanted
to go to the ranch instead.
So they flew to
Texas, landing at Bergsrom Air Force Base outside Austin. Johnson and his
companions drove to the LBJ ranch. Albertazzie and the crew stayed on the base,
since Johnson had said he wanted to fly back to Washington early the next day.
Everything was in readiness the
following morning, but departure time came and went - and no Johnson. Finally,
Albertazzie got a call from the ranch from Stuart Knight, LBJ's senior agent who
later became Secret Service director. "The man doesn't want to go to Washington,"
Knight said. "He wants to go to New York. He says he and Mary Margaret are
going to see 'Death of a Salesman' on Broadway, then they are going to have
dinner, and then we'll fly home after that."
The visit of a
President or Vice President to New York City is a formidable undertaking even
when it is unofficial. The city's politicians like to put on a good show and,
of course, Manhattan's traffic has to be surmounted. That requires a substantial
police motorcycle escort, the blocking of ramps and side streets, much flashing
of red lights and the blowing of sirens. Then there is the matter of security,
so extraordinary precautions have to be taken, including the placement of policemen
on all the bridges and at key points along the route from the airport to the heart
of the city.
New York's finest
were all over Idlewild and the parkway when Air Force Two swooped in for
LBJ's theatre date. The crew stayed aboard, since it would only be a matter of
a few hours before the plane would be on its way to Washington.
"Ten o'clock
came, eleven o'clock came, and still no word," Albertazzie recalled.
"Finally, about midnight, I heard from Stu Knight. The Vice President, he
said, had decided to stay in New York overnight and would go to Washington the first
thing in the morning ... about nine A.M."
So the cops were
dismissed, and the crew and I moved the plane over to the Lockheed area for security
and buttoned up for the night. We finally located some motel rooms and got to bed
about 1:30 A.M. We were up again at 5:30 so we could get back to the plane and
get it ready for departure at nine o'clock.
"Well, nine
o'clock came and went and no sign of LBJ. About eleven o'clock, I located Stu Knight
and asked, "What's happening?"
"'I don't
know,' Stu said. 'Right now, the man is getting his hair cut. Then I think he
is going to eat lunch. So it'll be some time after that before we get out of here.
I'll call you if I find out.'"
Late in the afternoon,
Albertazzie thought he detected increased police activity around the airport. Sure
enough, about five o'clock, a motorcade with flashing red lights swept into
view and stopped on the tarmac beside the plane. It was LBJ, along with Mary
Margaret and the three aides. Albertazzie and the crew almost cheered.
Twenty minutes later,
the plane was in the skies heading back to Washington. Johnson sent word up to the
cockpit to "pour on the coal." He had a seven P.M. engagement and
didn't want to be late.
[J.F. terHorst and Col. Ralph Albertazzie, The Flying White House:
The Story of Air Force One, pp. 207-209]
Texas reporter
Sarah McClendon: Bill Moyers was brought on as a “religious aide” to act as a
beard covering up the Lyndon Johnson/Mary Margaret Wiley relationship
Bill Moyers had just begun
handling the press for Lyndon at that time. Moyers, who’d graduated from Southwest
Theological Institute in Fort Worth, had been brought to Washington because of another
rumor: there had been speculation that LBJ’s relationship with his top secretary
Mary Margaret Wiley had become an intimate as well as a professional one.
Concerned, Lyndon had asked his good friend Harry Provence of the Waco Tribune and several other Texas editors to look for someone to
prevent that kind of talk. And who better to give the Vice Presidential staff a
more “sanctified” appearance than a young man headed for the ministry? So Moyers
was hired on, ostensibly to deal with policy concerning religion and to answer
letters that had a religious tone. In actuality, he was a chaperone who would
travel with Lyndon and Mary Margaret to show that all was on the up-and-up.”
[Sarah
McClendon, “Mr President, Mr. President!: My Fifty Years of Covering the White House,”
p. 92-93]
Journalist Myra MacPhearson: “The gossip was heavy and it was everywhere”
about Mary Margaret Valenti being a mistress of LBJ and Courtenay Lynda Valenti
being LBJ’s daughter.
Robert
Morrow interview with Myra MacPhearson 2-23-15.
Myra
also said there were more sexual gossip about LBJ than there was JFK when she
was in Washington, DC.
Myra MacPhearson is friends with Bill Moyers and Nadine Eckhardt.
And she was friends with Liz Carpenter and Texas journalist Sarah McLendon.
Mary Margaret Wiley was the
most key, inner circle secretary/mistress of LBJ
On the way
back to Washington the following day, somewhere between Los Angeles and Albuquerque,
as I recall, LBJ was sipping a cold drink and relaxing. He slapped me on the
knee.
“Rufus, we’re
gonna get it this month. We’re finally gonna pass that legislation. You boys
won’t have to check with Mary Margaret to find out if I want you, because I won’t
have any choice in the matter. There’ll be Secret Service for the Vice President,
whether he requests it or not.”
[Rufus Youngblood, 20
Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents, p. 91]
Mary Margaret Wiley was one of the few people who LBJ would let
drive him around the LBJ Ranch
QUOTE
Johnson permitted few persons to drive
him around on the ranch. One who did was his secretary, Mary Margaret Wiley. But
even with her, he sat hunched and tense, ready to explode as she barely missed
the cattle guards protruding from the ground. “You get only a B-minus for missing
that one so close,” he muttered. “You get an A for that one . . . now you got
an A-plus . . .”
UNQUOTE
[Alfred
Steinberg, Sam Johnson’s Boy: A Close-Up of the President from Texas, p.
491]
Journalist Joshua Kendall
spoke with Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti around the year 2014. She shot back “Do
you want the dirt?”
“Robert Caro’s Blind Spot:
Why does the exhaustive biographer overlook Lyndon Johnson’s virulent misogyny?”
by Joshua Kendall for Slate 4-22-2019
https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/lyndon-johnson-robert-caro-affairs-misogyny.html
QUOTE
About five years ago, I placed
a call to Mary Margaret Wiley, who served as President Lyndon Johnson’s personal
secretary from 1954 to 1962. I was writing a chapter on LBJ for my book First
Dads: Parenting and Politics From George Washington to Barack Obama, and I
figured that Wiley could shed some light on Johnson’s relationships with his
daughters, Lynda and Luci.
As soon as I identified myself as a biographer, Wiley
shot back, “Do you want the dirt?”
“No,” I replied, “I am
interested in talking to you about how LBJ interacted with his children.”
Without further ado,
Wiley, who died last fall at the age of 85, hung up the phone. My interview was
over before I could pose a single question. Puzzled about her remark, I turned
to LBJ: Architect of
American Ambition by Randall Woods. Wiley did not speak with
Woods either, but he learned a lot about her by talking with her successor,
Marie Fehmer, who worked for Johnson from 1962 to 1969. In her interview with
Woods, Fehmer said that Wiley and Johnson had had a long affair. And Fehmer
also admitted that LBJ had tried to seduce her. In November 1962, just a few months
after she took over for Wiley, Johnson offered to set Fehmer up in an apartment
in New York City, if she would agree to have his child—a proposal she politely
declined.
So the “dirt” that Wiley was alluding to likely
had something to do with the fact that our 36th president was a
sexual predator who preyed on his secretaries. As noted by Woods and a few other
Johnson chroniclers—say, biographer Robert Dallek and longtime aide George
Reedy—he also repeatedly groped his female staffers. Presidential speechwriter Horace
Busby reported that once, while he was seated in the back seat of a car, he saw
Johnson grab a woman under her skirt with one hand while driving with the other.
UNQUOTE
Connie Bruck August 5, 2001 article in the New
Yorker on Jack Valenti, LBJ and Mary Margaret Wiley
The Personal
Touch | The New Yorker
Mary Margaret went to work for LBJ in 1953 as a secretary
and soon she became his top sexual companion.
QUOTE
In the spring of 1961,
Valenti began to date Johnson’s personal secretary, a vivacious blond woman named
Mary Margaret Wiley. Wiley, who grew up in Austin, had begun working for
Johnson eight years earlier, after graduating from the University of Texas, and
was a favorite of his—spending time at the Johnson ranch, and accompanying him
on political trips. In the summer of 1962, at twenty-nine, she married Valenti,
who was eleven years her senior. Her father was ill at the time, so
Vice-President Johnson gave away the bride. Wiley quit her job but, as was
often the case with people who left Johnson’s orbit, kept being drawn back in;
in the fall of 1962, she accompanied the Vice-President to Iran, Turkey, and
Greece. And she and Valenti were frequent guests at the L.B.J. ranch.
It was not until November of 1963 that Johnson began to rely on
Valenti. Valenti had organized a dinner in Houston, attended by President and Mrs.
Kennedy and the Vice-President and his wife, Lady Bird; it had gone
exceptionally well, and Johnson asked Valenti to accompany him to Dallas the next
day and then continue with him to Austin, for another dinner that Valenti had
orchestrated. Valenti, delighted, agreed. He was in the motorcade in Dallas the
next day. He was among those who rushed to Parkland Hospital, where President
Kennedy had been taken, and where he eventually learned that the President was
dead and that Johnson wanted him on Air Force One. Valenti sped there (he
appears in the famous photograph of Johnson taking the oath of office), and for
the next couple of months lived with Johnson, first in the Elms, the
Vice-President’s residence, and then in the White House. Liz Carpenter, Lady
Bird’s press secretary, who was also on Air Force One that day, told me, “He
scooped Jack up—that’s so Johnsonian! Houston had been successful, so he scooped
him up and took him along. Johnson was such an impromptu, impulsive,
enthusiastic person—particularly when things had gone well. It just happened
that way. Destiny. Jack was there, he was capable, he was a ‘can-do man,’ as
Johnson liked to say.”
UNQUOTE
LBJ to Jack Valenti:
"What do you mean, your little daughter?
C. R. Scholar says:
Lyndon B. Johnson
by Earnest May and Timothy J. Nattal
Volumn 46
Page 380
Jack Valenti: I've been here with my little daughter, and I've been working.
LBJ: What do you mean, your
little daughter?
Many portions of the taped conversations between Valenti, LBJ and
Mary Margaret and LBJ are excised under deed of gift restriction. (Whatever
that is.)
"LBJ is 'Prez' to His Little Darling"
Reading
Eagle, June 19, 1966:
Editor's Note - There
are few persons outside the president's immediate family who have open-door access
to him, but one who does has the temerity to call him "Prez" - and he
just loves it. Who is this daring person? Why it's the president's darling:
Courtenay Lynda Valenti, aged 2.
By FRANCES LEWINE
Associated Press
Writer
Washington (AP) - Courtenay Lynda
Valenti wandered into the President's White House office, sat down and picked up
his inter-office phone.
She jabbered away softly despite the
presence of President Johnson and a high-level conference of both parties.
From time to time, she paused to stare
critically at one speaker after another, including the president.
Courtenay made no comments.
Later, a Republican congressman
requested a picture of the "marvelous little girl who took part in our conference."
He said he'd never before attended a presidential meeting "with a little girl
monitoring it."
Courtenay is 2 1/2 years old now.
But she has already had more inside moments with the President of the United States
and his advisors than many a politician.
Talk Together
Often
Johnson calls her a few times a week
to chat. She rides in helicopters, greets him at church, visits his ranch. And,
not long ago, she stood triumphantly on the front seat of the President's car while
he drove. She discussed the passing countryside with him and his secretary of Defense
at Camp David.
The sprightly little girl with soft
brown hair and eyes holds her own with the tall man in the White House. When he
asks her to do something, she just tells him, "wait a minute, Prez."
Courtenay is acknowledged as the President's
"favorite girl friend." He even had an album of pictures inscribed to
her that way. It contains a continuing collection of photos of Courtenay and
the President taken by Johnson's favorite official photographer, Yoichi
Okamoto.
Romance
Started Early
Courtenay's romance with the
President started when she started to walk - and that was early, "about 9 or
10 months" says her father and chief press spokesman, Jack Valenti.
Getting ready to leave his post as a
top presidential advisor to become president of
the Motion Picture Assn. of America with offices a few blocks away, Valenti
said:
"Whether the President sees me or
not- this romance will go on." It will surmount all difficulties, geographical
or otherwise, like any real romance, he predicted.
Courtenay's parents first introduced
her at the White House, where they already had a big in.
Father Jack had gone to work for
Johnson the day he succeeded to the presidency. And mother, Mary Margaret
Wiley, had been Johnson's secretary for nine years on Capital Hill before her marriage.
Lynda
Middle Name
When she was born in Houston, Tex.,
Oct. 30, 1963, Courtenay's parents gave her the middle name of Lynda in honor of
the President.
In her intimate circles, though,
Courtenay is now called "Corry" by her father, and "Chiquita,"
by the President.
Courtenay made many appearances
before the nation's press when she met the President with her family after Sunday
church services. For eight months, the Valentis lived next door to St. Mark's
Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill and the Johnson's stopped by to visit during
their frequent attendance there.
But Courtenay really made her debut
when she went to visit the President at Bethesda Naval Hospital after his gall
bladder operation.
In a lavishly photographed scene,
Johnson called the little girl over and said "besito" (little kiss)
and Courtenay bestowed the requested kiss again and again.
When the President said "who do
you love," she came up on cue: "I love Prez."
"Critical"
Moment Noted
But there was a critical moment in
the big romance a few Sundays ago when Courtenay was put to the test before a
company of friends, Viet Nam veterans, family and reporters and declared "I
love Pat" instead of the usual "I love Prez."
Reading about it in the press the
next day, Johnson jokingly scolded the reporters, suggested they needed hearing
aids and declared the very idea that Courtenay was switching her affection to
his daughter's fiance, Pat Nugent, was a misquotation.
When Courtenay isn't hob-nobbing at
the White House, she has a coterie of little friends her own age, the sons and
daughters of other prominent Washingtonians.
But when things get boring at home,
she sends word:
"Tell Prez I wanna go helicopter!"
PHOTO OF SMILING
LYNDON JOHNSON HOLDING UP SMILING COURTENAY
CAPTION READS: "President Lyndon B. Johnson and 2 1/2-year-old
Courtenay Lynda (for Lyndon) Valenti, share a laugh during recent visit by the
youngster to the White House in Washington. - AP News features Photo
I think Nancy Dickerson is talking about Mary Margaret Valenti (nee Wiley)
in this passage - "meaningful affair"
"I have been told firsthand
about LBJ's amorous pursuits; some of the stories are plausible, others simply
not true. However, there are so many accounts that there will always be questions
about the subject. My own belief is that the only meaningful affair he ever had
predated his Presidency, and I doubt whether anyone will ever know about it.
As for me, I just never thought he was that sexy."
[Nancy Dickerson,
"Among Those Present: A Reporter's View of 25 Years in Washington," p.
140]
Not only did
Jack Valenti let his wife Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti sleep with Lyndon
Johnson, he was also a pimp for LBJ
Famous singer Eddie
Fisher in his 1999 autobiography:
QUOTE
A lot of men hung around me not because of my scintillating
personality, but rather because there were always extra women. That was my
reputation: Eddie, women. That’s not bragging, that’s reporting. I had campaigned
heavily for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and after the election I was the first
person he called to invite to his ranch for the celebratory party. He even sent
the presidential helicopter to pick me up in Austin. It was a huge barbeque,
and I sang for him. I was so proud, me and my friend, the President. When I
finished singing, Jack Valenti, LBJ’s friend and close aide, sat down close to
me. And after a few moments of small talk he asked, “ Eddie, what about getting
some of our castaways for the old man?”
The President of the United States wanted me to find women
for him? I didn’t know whether to be honored or insulted. Instead I just
laughed, pretending that I thought Valenti was kidding.
UNQUOTE
[Eddie Fisher, Been There, Done That: An Autobiography, pp.
258-259]
FBI Probed
Hollywood's Jack Valenti for Mob Ties
By Jim Meyers | Monday,
09 February 2009 05:24 PM
Jack Valenti, a top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson and
longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America, was
investigated by the FBI for his relationships with a "top hoodlum."
Documents obtained by Newsmax under the Freedom of Information
Act also reveal that Valenti's father and father-in-law were both jailed for
embezzlement.
And an unsubstantiated report claimed that Valenti, who died in
April 2007 at age 85, had arranged for an abortion for a woman impregnated by
LBJ.
An ad executive from Texas and a longtime friend of Johnson,
Valenti handled the advertising in his home state during LBJ's 1960 vice
presidential campaign.
He was present when Johnson was sworn in as president following
the November 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, and flew with Johnson to
Washington, D.C., aboard Air Force One following the ceremony.
Although he held no official title in the White House, FBI
documents refer to him most often as a "special consultant" or
"special assistant" to the president.
An early document in Valenti's FBI file dates from Dec. 13,
1963, shortly after he joined President Johnson's staff. The White House had
requested that the Bureau investigate Valenti's background.
The document mentions an "alleged relationship between
Valenti and [name redacted] top hoodlum."
Another document in Valenti's file refers to this individual as
a "top hoodlum and leading gambling figure of the Houston area," and
says he had been "a friend of long standing" with Valenti.
A document dated Dec. 20, 1963, states that the "top
hoodlum" conducted "a lucrative bookmaking operation" and was
"employed by [name redacted], who has also been investigated under the
Anti-Racketeering Program. [Name redacted] is an extremely wealthy individual
who heads [redacted] in Houston, which is a private oil producing
company."
Valenti's file reveals that his father, Joe Valenti, was
sentenced on Nov. 2, 1937, to two years in prison for felony embezzlement from
Harris County, Tex.
Joe Valenti was Deputy Assessor and Collector of Taxes of Harris
County, and was charged with pocketing about $175. He served 14 months in jail
and was pardoned in 1940.
Jack Valenti wed Mary Wiley, LBJ's longtime secretary, in 1962.
A document dated Jan. 2, 1964, discloses that her father George Wiley was
charged with embezzling about $40,000 from the Texas bank where he worked as a
cashier. He was sentenced to two years in prison in March 1937.
Shortly after Valenti married, he and his wife spent several
days at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, and the hotel bill was
"complimentary." The free room was authorized by "a major owner
of record of the Tropicana Hotel," an individual identified elsewhere in
Valenti's file as a "millionaire lumberman from Alabama."
A curious document in Valenti's extensive file discloses that on
Oct. 19, 1964, an FBI agent received a phone call from an "informant"
who said the Bureau should investigate Valenti "as a sex pervert,"
the document states. "He based this request on the fact that he had read
in the newspapers that Valenti swims in the nude in the White House pool."
That same month, President Johnson asked the FBI to probe any
"derogatory information" concerning his White House associates. The
FBI responded with a promise to send a memo regarding "Valenti's
association with a homosexual in California and Texas."
This individual was identified as a professional photographer
and attended a number of Valenti's parties in Houston.
A memo dated May 28,
1965, cited a "contact" who reported that Valenti "arranged for
an abortion for a girl whom the President had made pregnant."
But the FBI determined that the "abortion allegation is not
supported in Bureau files."
Several months later, Valenti asked the FBI to check his home
phone line, fearing that it might have been tapped. Nothing of the sort was
found, an agent told Valenti.
In 1966, Valenti resigned
his White House Post, which paid $30,000 a year, and accepted an appointment to
be president of the Motion Picture Association of America — a position that
reportedly paid $175,000 a year.
In September 1974, the FBI was asked to update Valenti's files
because he was "being considered for presidential appointment, position
not indicated."
However, Valenti remained with the MPAA for 38 years, retiring
in 2004 at age 82. He died three years later.
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Lyndon K. Boozer is the biological son of Lyndon Johnson; He is the son of
LBJ personal secretary Yolanda Boozer
Lyndon
Boozer - born July 19, 1963 (I think).
Author
Ronald Kessler's Secret Service agent sources told him that Lyndon Johnson was
having sex with 5 of his 8 secretaries.
And
I have no doubt that Mary Margaret Valenti's first born daughter Courtenay Lynda
Valenti is the biological daughter of Lyndon Johnson and not Jack Valenti. Mary
Margaret Wiley had been LBJ's very young and yet very long time personal
secretary when he was at the peak of power in the Senate in the 1950's.
Yolanda
Boozer was another secretary of LBJ's. Her son Lyndon Boozer, now a prominent
Democratic lobbyist for ATT and he is in fact named after Lyndon Johnson.
"It
was July 19, 1963. Yolanda Garza Boozer had given birth to a boy at the Columbia
Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C. Her boss, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson,
stopped by to visit the new mother and her husband, a Treasury official."
So
the question is: Is Lyndon Johnson the biological father of Lyndon Boozer? Based
on what I know about LBJ, a man described as a "Turkish sultan" by
his long time aide George Reedy and based on the fact that Lyndon Johnson was
using his secretarial pool as a harem, my answer is that would be very easy for
me to believe that Lyndon Boozer is the son of Lyndon Johnson.
Check
out this article on "Washington's Top Power Couples" http://capitolfile-magazine.com/personalities/articles/power-couples?page=5
"Lyndon,
meanwhile, has been entwined in politics and public service ever since his
mother's boss, President Lyndon B. Johnson, discovered that she had named her
baby, Kyle Lyndon Boozer, in his honor. Legend has it Johnson told her that if
she switched his first and middle names, he would extend her maternity leave. It
was an easy decision, Lyndon says. (In 2007, to give back to his namesake and
honor the Johnson family legacy and its loyalty to his family, he spearheaded
the effort, alongside members of Congress, to name the Department of Education
building after the 36th president.)"
Regarding
Lyndon Boozer: look at the nose, the eyes, the height of the man ... and more
importantly the "power posture." Even the clothes. Most folks don't know
this, but the LBJ of the 1940's and 1950's was an extremely well dressed man.
He liked fine, expensive clothes and one of his mistresses taught him how to
dress.
LBJ
liked to exude power. Kind of like the way Lyndon Boozer exudes power today.
Web
link here for some great photos of Lyndon Boozer with Luci Baines Johnson. http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1905167/print
Do
they look like half-brother, half-sister to you?
And
here is an article on "Lobbyist's mission to honor LBJ" http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/3847.html
One
thing that is true about the JFK assassination is that there are so many
families with legacies and reputations to protect: the Johnson family, the Hunt
oil family of Dallas, the Bush family, the Byrd family, the Murchison family.
Many
of these folks, the children and grandchilden of the murderers of John Kennedy,
are politicaly powerful and prominent today, Some, in the case of the Hunt
family, are mega wealthy.
And
then one has the legacies off all the people who helped cover up the JFK assassination
- the Ford family, Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti ... it is almost like a Rolodex of
the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties and even society if
you add in the Rockefellers for cover up or participation.
Sycophantic LBJ biographer
Doris Kearns Goodwin denies having an affair with Lyndon Johnson. I believe here
but there is no doubt that LBJ regarded her as a girlfriend interest
LBJ
pressured Kearns for sex, later asked her to MARRY him!
Was
LBJ biographer Doris Kearns having an affair with Lyndon Johnson? Here is the
response of a very well known JFK researcher when I posed that question to him:
“No doubt about that one ….” Sally Quinn had said some rather provocative
things about Doris Kearns-Goodwin's relationship with LBJ in those "final
years." Here is a reference to that in a Wash Post article (“A Tale
of Hearts and Minds, 8/24/75) alluded to in the LA Times in 2002:
Goodwin's first dip in
the waters of infamy came in 1967, when, having received a White House fellowship,
she was photographed dancing with Lyndon Johnson at a reception. The story
turned on the fact that the president's dance partner, then Doris Kearns, had
just co-written a piece for the New Republic under the headline: "How to
Remove L.B.J. in 1968."
Later, in the early 1970s,
Kearns and Richard Goodwin, lovers but not yet married, set off a literary scandal
that attracted national media attention. It
involved a "psychobiography" that Kearns was writing about Johnson,
based in part on intimate conversations they'd had on his ranch in Texas, and a
decision to bring Goodwin aboard as a co-author.
Their plan was to
expand what had begun as a scholarly work--intended to help secure for her a
tenured professorship at Harvard University--break with a smaller publishing
house and sell the book elsewhere, for about five times the money. As the dispute
grew, the story oozed outward to include speculation in print about whether
Kearns might have had an affair with Johnson.
Sally Quinn, flying
at her highest as a feature writer in the Washington Post's Style section,
wrote a lively, at times almost embarrassingly explicit, account of the chaos
that had come to Kearn's love and literary life. The piece ran for what seemed
like forever, and it included a rather tart summation:
"
Kearns has always gotten what she wanted--and made it look as if she didn't
even try. She got elected student-body president at Colby College in Maine, got
the best grades, got the best beaux, got into Harvard, got a White House fellowship,
got Lyndon Johnson, got her Ph.D, got her professorship at Harvard, got her
book, got author Richard Goodwin and got Goodwin to collaborate with her on the
book. Those are all things she wanted, or thought she wanted when she got
them."
At
one point in the story, the then-32-year-old Kearns is quoted as saying: "
I really believe that Johnson was picking a person he wanted to write about him.
People say he was in love with me and things like that. Partly that's true. But
it was much more serious than that."
Here is another
excerpt from Sally Quinn’s 1974 article
"Johnson
was terribly possessive of her time, more and more as he came closer to death. She
was seeing many men at this point in her life but had no real attachments until
she met Richard Goodwin six months before Johnson's death."
One time Doris Kearns gave a lecture and said that Lyndon Johnson had compared
her to his mother. [LBJ's mother was quite the enabler of him; as was Lady Bird.]
When Kearns comments became public and appeared in print, LBJ said:
"So
I'll just take the knife out of my heart and close up the wound, and we'll have
you back here and we won't look back in pride or shame. We'll just start from
here and we'll go on with your book without Parade. We're both still alive and
that's what counts.”
Kearns has later admitted that Lyndon Johnson used to crawl into bed with her
and just talk, but with nothing else going on....
As for me, I am not buying that nothing else went on. The Doris Kearns case is
just another example of Lyndon Johnson's ability to manipulate people and even
turn them into sychophants protecting his legacy decades later. Jack Valenti would
be another good example.
Doris Kearns Goodwin: "I
got to know this crazy character [Lyndon B. Johnson] when I was only 23 years
old.... He's still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating
individual I think I've ever known in my entire life.” [Academy of Achievement June 1996 interview, p.1]
Doris Kearns also
told authors Richard Harwood and Haynes Johnson about her relationship with LBJ
in an interview that Sally Quinn refers to:
"They both took copious notes. In the interview Kearns told the reporters
that her relationship with President Johnson was extraordinarily complicated,
that she was still having trouble placing it in perspective, that she was troubled
about how to handle her personal relationship with Johnson when she published
her own book.
“She told them that the essence of their relationship was that LBJ was in love
with her, that he ‘pressed me very hard sexually the first year,’ that he courted
her aggressively, that he asked her to marry him, that he was jealous of other
men in her life."
[Sally Quinn, Washington Post, 8/24/75 "A Tale of Hearts and Minds"]
My comment: Really, this kind of behavior from Lyndon Johnson was typical. It
is how he behaved his whole life, and I don't just mean sexually. I am referring
to his narcissism, neediness, ability to manipulate people, ability to turn
folks into sycophants and slaves and have them do things they would not normally
do.
I guess this just reproves the old saying that women love power; even if power is
a old bloated, craggy man and a paranoid, mendacious, delusional nut job.
Here is an email to me from a Harvard alum:
“Robert,
I was a graduate student at Harvard in the Political Science Department when
Kearns was writing her LBJ book — the gossip at Harvard was always that she was
LBJ’s lover — Kearns was first and foremost an opportunist — if sleeping with
LBJ advanced her career, I doubt she hesitated.”
- Mark Groubert says:
Mr. Morrow is correct. Doris Kearns
Goodwin told a mutual friend of ours that she had sex with Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Her husband Richard Goodwin was in the throws of his own self-admitted alcoholism
at the time.
Two good books on LBJ’s dysfunction and his alcoholism: Power Beyond Reason:
The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson by D. Jablow Hershman and Lyndon B. Johnson:
A Memoir by George Reedy.
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