. >> she would not have picked him but you know something, jim baker and mike deaver went to a numberrters and said, who should we pick as press secretary, and they all said jim brady because we trust him. he's so good. >> i don't think a lot of people know this but he kept the title of press secretary. larry speaks in that role was always the acting press secretary and the buck stopped with nancy reagan. she said, no, it's jim brady's title. >> the post shooting jim brady, i often looked at him and saw him after the shooting, he did work with his wife, the brady foundation and the handgun which president clinton signed, the brady handgun control bill. so it was a life that just was toughly lived. he got dealt a bad hand and he still -- you still saw jim brady come back and do something different but do it really well. >> we throw around the word hero a lot in our culture, but jim defined it. he had something so tragic happen to him and he turned it into something so positive. i mean, let's look at how tough the gun control debate is. jim brady got something done. >> i happen to belie