{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Michael A. McManus Jr. |image = Portraits of Assistants to President Ronald Reagan (cropped2).jpg |caption = |office = [[White House Communications Director]] |president = [[Ronald Reagan]] |term_start = January 15, 1984 |term_end = February 6, 1985 |predecessor = [[David Gergen]] |successor = [[Pat Buchanan]] |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|3|11}} |birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |education = [[University of Notre Dame]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Georgetown University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]]) }}
'''Michael A. McManus Jr.''' (born March 11, 1943) is an American political strategist who served as [[White House Communications Director]] from 1984 to 1985 and now a Director at [[Novavax]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Steven R. Weisman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/25/us/white-house-mixed-signals-fray-nerves-as-dog-days-set-in.html |title=White House - Mixed Signals Fray Nerves As Dog Days Set In |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 25, 1982 |access-date=June 6, 2017}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=[[David Gergen]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[White House Communications Director|White House Director of Communications]]|years=1984–1985}} {{s-aft|after=[[Pat Buchanan]]}} {{s-end}}
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