Larry Speaks, who became the White House spokesman after President Ronald Reagan and Press Secretary James Brady were shot in a 1981 assassination attempt, died Friday. He was 74.

White House press spokesman Larry Speakes won`t be standing behind the podium much longer. On Thursday, Speakes announced that he`s giving up the daily press briefings to become a flack for ...

Larry Speakes, who strained to mediate between a hungry press corps and a media-distrustful White House during six years as President Reagan’s press secretary, has died. He was 74.

Larry Speakes, who spent six years as acting press secretary for President Ronald Reagan, ... After resigning his White House job in 1987, Speakes worked for Merrill Lynch in New York.

Larry Speakes dies at 74. ... Republican Haley Barbour, who served as Mississippi governor from 2004 to 2012, was political director of the Reagan White House when Speakes worked there.

Reading it reminded me of another first: The first time a reporter asked the White House about AIDS. ... 1982, the first time Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes fielded a question about AIDS. ...

On Oct. 15, 1982, at a White House press briefing, reporter Lester Kinsolving asked Press Secretary Larry Speakes about a horrifying new disease called AIDS that was ravaging the gay community ...

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That's what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, ...

Larry Speakes, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary for six years, died Friday in Cleveland, Mississippi, a county coroner said. He was 74. Speakes took over the duties as … ...

Speaks became acting White House press secretary after President Ronald Reagan and Press Secretary James Brady were shot in a 1981 assassination attempt — and held the position for six years.