The Nation - News from Jan. 31, 1989

James S. Brady, who remained on the government payroll as Ronald Reagan’s press secretary for nearly eight years after being severely wounded in an assassination attempt, is retiring. White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said this week that President Bush talked with Brady’s wife, Sarah, about the former press secretary’s retirement plans before his inauguration. Brady, 48, who has held a variety of government jobs since coming to Washington in 1968 as a communications consultant to the House, is entitled to a government pension. He was shot in the head March 30, 1981, during an attempt on Reagan’s life, and uses a wheelchair.