FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 1984 file photo, U.S. President Reagan, flanked by Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes, talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, as he prepared to leave for California. Speakes, who spent six years as acting press secretary for President Reagan, died Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 in his native Mississippi. He was 74. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz, File)