FLINT, MI -- When he took over as Gov. Rick Snyder's chief of staff in 2016, Jarrod Agen received a message from the man he was replacing.

"Welcome to the job," Dennis Muchmore wrote to his successor. "It's one of those where tomorrow you'll have another set of even more ugly decisions."

Agen survived the ugly decisions, many of which were tied to the Flint water crisis, helping Snyder's administration weather the roughest storm since he was elected to his first term in 2010.

On Wednesday, Agen was named director of communications for Vice President Mike Pence and deputy assistant to President Trump.

When he went to work as chief of staff for Snyder, Agen's boss had already acknowledged failures in state government tied to the water crisis, and Flint had ended its failed experiment of making the Flint River the city's water source, but the issue wasn't over.

Here's some of Agen's involvement in the issue, including time he spent as director of communications for the governor -- his previous job:

Received, but never opened:

Advised to take money out of the Flint water equation:

Call for action on 'public relations crisis:'

The Snyder administration waited until September to acknowledge problems with lead in Flint water and for another full year before activating the National Guard to begin intensive bottled water distribution.