Larry Speakes, 74, who was thrust into the White House press secretary’s job after former President Reagan and his spokesman Jim Brady were shot in 1981, died Friday and, in an unusual move, was buried the very same day.
Speakes had a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease and died in Cleveland, Miss., where he was born.
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