(1939-09-13)September 13, 1939 Cleveland, Mississippi, U.S.
Died
January 10, 2014(2014-01-10) (aged 74) Cleveland, Mississippi, U.S.
Political party
Democratic (before 1974) Republican (1974–2014)
Spouse(s)
Laura Crawford Betty Robinson Aleta Sindelar
Children
3
Education
University of Mississippi (BA)
Larry Melvin Speakes (September 13, 1939 – January 10, 2014) was an American journalist and spokesperson who acted as White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987. He assumed the role after Press Secretary James Brady was shot on March 30, 1981.
Speakes was a native of northwest Mississippi and attended the University of Mississippi. He worked as a journalist in the 1960s until he became press secretary for Democratic Senator James Eastland in 1968. In this position he also worked as the spokesman for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
In 1974, he became a Staff Assistant for President Richard Nixon and soon became the Press Secretary to the Special Counsel to the President at the height of the Watergate scandal. Upon Nixon's resignation, President Gerald Ford appointed Speakes to be Assistant Press Secretary to the President. Speakes served as Bob Dole's press secretary during his unsuccessful vice-presidential run with Ford. He worked for the international public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton until joining the Reagan administration.
resignation, President Gerald Ford appointed Speakes to be Assistant Press Secretary to the President. Speakes served as Bob Dole's press secretary during...
Speakes: I don't have it. Are you- [More scattered laughter.] Speakes: Do you? Kinsolving: You don't have it? Well, I'm relieved to hear that, Larry!...
remained in the position until the end of the Reagan administration with LarrySpeakes and Marlin Fitzwater performing the job on an "acting" or "deputy" basis...
know about this epidemic, Larry? SPEAKES: I don't think so. I don't think there's been any— KINSOLVING: Nobody knows? SPEAKES: There has been no personal...
the disease even though press secretary LarrySpeakes and some other correspondents made light of it; Speakes joked that Kinsolving had an "abiding interest...
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veteran; and Ron Nessen, an NBC News correspondent Reagan administration – LarrySpeakes, a newspaper editor; and Marlin Fitzwater, a newspaper editor George...
times on television and has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Larry King Live, and nearly all national news broadcasts. Fitzwater, Marlin. Calm...
Sawyer and LarrySpeakes were assigned to the staff of Nixon's lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt for a project to "prove" that Dean was lying. Speakes later claimed...
secretary LarrySpeakes who was running the government, to which Speakes responded, "I cannot answer that question at this time". Upon hearing Speakes's remark...
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1 episode) as Dean Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991) as LarrySpeakes JFK (1991) as Al Oser Growing Pains (1991–92, 2 episodes) as George...
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American author and radio and television host. His awards and nominations...
been published by outlets such as Gannett. White House Press Secretary LarrySpeakes declined to comment that same day, saying, "I don't talk about off-the-record...
House Press Secretary LarrySpeakes informed the media of the planned visit to Bitburg. When asked who was buried at Kolmeshöhe, Speakes said he thought both...
Jr., US Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, White House Press Secretary LarrySpeakes, and Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. Notable academics include...
Batrachomyomachia. Garry Wills, "All the President's Mice" (review of LarrySpeakes, Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House), The New...
2000. The series was created by Larry David, who stars as a fictionalized version of himself. The series follows Larry in his life as a well-off, semi-retired...
last minute to join Hands Across America, although press secretary LarrySpeakes denied that there was any connection between the two events. White House...
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risk." Decades after Reagan's presidency, audio surfaced that revealed LarrySpeakes, who was the White House Press Secretary from 1981-1987, gave a dismissive...
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-08. "Statement by Deputy Press Secretary LarrySpeakes". September 23, 1982. Brinkley, Joel (March 11, 1984). "The Collapse...
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