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 President Kennedy , Valenti was present in the famous photograph of Lyndon Johnson 's swearing-in aboard Air Force One , and flew with the new president to Washington . He then became the first " special assistant " to Johnson 's White House and lived in the White House for the first two months of Johnson 's presidency . In 1964 , Johnson gave Valenti the responsibility to handle relations with the Republican Congressional leadership , particularly Gerald Ford and Charles Halleck from the House of Representatives , and the Senate 's Everett Dirksen
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