Before Jack Valenti became president of the Motion Picture Association, he was an aide to President Lyndon Johnson–who investigated his underling’s sex life. The Washington Post report revealing the matter excuses Johnson’s snooping and blames–who else?–J. Edgar Hoover. In my piece at the American Spectator, I detail the familiar narrative of how Democratic Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Harry Truman to John Kennedy get a pass on civil liberties abuses and these transgressions get blamed on Hoover. It’s as if we are to understand that presidents take their orders from the FBI director, and not the reverse. So don’t blame LBJ for investigating Jack Valenti’s private life. The devil made him do it.
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