Larry M. Speakes (born September 13, 1939) is a former acting spokesman for the White House under President Ronald Reagan, having held the position from 1981 to 1987.
Speakes was born in Cleveland, Mississippi. Speakes is married to Laura Crawford, with whom he has three children.
Speakes received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Mississippi. He served as editor of the Oxford (Mississippi) Eagle in 1961, and as manag...
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Larry M. Speakes (born September 13, 1939) is a former acting spokesman for the White House under President Ronald Reagan, having held the position from 1981 to 1987.
Speakes was born in Cleveland, Mississippi. Speakes is married to Laura Crawford, with whom he has three children.
Speakes received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Mississippi. He served as editor of the Oxford (Mississippi) Eagle in 1961, and as managing editor of the Bolivar Commericail in Cleveland, Mississippi from 1962 to 1966. From 1966 to 1968 he worked as general manager and editor of Progress Publishers of Leland, Mississippi.
Speakes headed to Washington, DC in 1968, serving as press secretary to Senator James Eastland of Mississippi. In this capacity, he worked as spokesman for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and a coordinator of the senator's reelection campaign in 1972.
The White House tapped Speakes in 1974 as a Staff Assistant and soon became the Press Secretary to...
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