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Larry Speakes

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

Larry Speakes

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Larry Speakes compares the early struggles of becoming a press secretary to the slow, uncertain process of learning to type by searching for each key. Over time, just as typing becomes automatic, a press secretary learns to speak confidently on behalf of the president without directly consulting him every time.

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