In 1951, he joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and worked as a white house correspondent.
Deakin studied and reported the administrations of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
In 1981, he retired from The Post-Dispatch and ended up teaching courses in journalism at George Washington University until 1987.
One of his most well-known book was "Straight Stuff: The Reporters, The White House and the Truth".
[2] Deakin was married to his wife Doris and together they had a son named David, and two grandsons.