Valeriani was NBC's senior White House correspondent under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. He also covered the Civil Rights Movement and the State Department under Henry Kissinger. In the 1995 film Crimson Tide, he played a CNN correspondent. After retiring in 1996, he became a media trainer with clients including Ted Danson and Jimmy Fallon.
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