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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)

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“There was high-level medical and military consultation and it was just a very serious problem for health and safety,” Speakes said, according to transcripts provided Friday by the Reagan library.

1985 was the last time an inauguration was indoors. Reagans felt they had no choice →