Nation IN BRIEF : VIRGINIA : Brady Is Improving After Cardiac Arrest
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The condition of James S. Brady--former President Ronald Reagan’s White House press secretary--was improving steadily, a day after his heart stopped during a dental surgical procedure, according to a hospital spokeswoman. “His condition has been upgraded from critical to serious to fair,” said the spokeswoman for Fairfax Hospital in northern Virginia. Brady was “currently alert and talking,” she added. The former White House official was wounded during the 1981 attempt on Reagan’s life.
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