He was the defendant/appellee for the federal government of the United States in Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld federal limits on and disclosure requirements for campaign contributions but struck down limits on campaign and independent expenditures.

He was a 1936 political science graduate of New York University, where he also received a master's degree in international relations in 1942.

Biden was caring for his two sons following a car crash that killed his wife and infant daughter two weeks earlier.

Valeo's books include The Japanese Diet and the U.S. Congress (1983) and Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader: A Different Kind of Senate, 1961–1976 (1999).

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