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Shortly before [[Ronald Reagan]] was elected president, Hughes received a call from one of Reagan's advisors, asking him what Reagan should say in his acceptance speech, should he be elected. Hughes offered some ideas, which were remembered and used. Shortly after Reagan was elected, Hughes was asked to move to Washington D.C. to serve in Reagan's administration from 1981 to 1985.
Hughes initially served as the Associate Director of the [[United States Information Agency]], and was later appointed the director of the [[Voice of America]].<ref name=cortez/> While serving in that capacity, he received a phone call from [[George Shultz]] inviting Hughes to be the [[Spokesperson for the United States Department of State|spokesman for the State Department]] and [[Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs]]. Back in Orleans, the joke among editors and reporters in the Cape Cod Oracle newsroom was, "poor John Hughes: he can't hold down a job for more than six months," according to Dwight Shepard, who Hughes tapped to be the editor of his weeklies while he was in Washington. Needless to say, each of these changes were promotions.
Following four years in Washington D.C., Hughes returned to Massachusetts where his newspapers were flourishing. He resumed his control of the companies, but eventually sold them when neither of his children wanted to fill his position.
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