I was always impressed with President Reagan's courage but particularly so during the course of the assassination attempt, when we arrived at the hospital and he was on a gurney there, they were wheeling him into surgery and he looked up at us and he said, who's minding the store and when he made his famous comment about the doctors--I hope somebody's a Republican in this crowd. What people I don't think appreciated at the time, was how very close he came to dying, as a consequence of that assassination attempt. And there were some complications that developed several days after his surgery that could have been much more dangerous that they ended up being but I was impressed with his courage, you bet.

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