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Larry Speakes, who spent six years as acting press secretary for President Ronald Reagan, died Friday in his native Mississippi. He was 74. Speakes died at home in Cleveland, Miss., where he had lived ...

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That's what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first lady decided to hold his ...

(Reuters) - Larry Speakes, who took over as press secretary for U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981 after his predecessor was wounded in an assassination attempt against the president, died on Friday ...

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