With you today. One of them was who is your personal hero . Mine was jim brady. One was a personal connection. Anyone with any objective research would find that we were the last of the press secretaries who shared the hollywood good looks and fashion sense that very often you see in the movies. He is a hero not because of what happened to him. People faced tragedy in the lives. He is a hero because of what he did with it. We live in a very partisan and difficult town right now. It is hard to believe that we can find Common Ground on issues that arent that hard. Jim and sarah got things done. We should not forget that. What was your favorite data white house . Another easy one. When we renamed the press Briefing Room after jim brady. It was my favorite day. It honor jim and i think it brought great joy to jim, sarah, and the family. Probably just as important for me, it honor his legacy forever. Whoever the president is or the press secretary is, where ever they stand on issues, when t
[no audio] [applause] [applause] welcome. We are greeting you as jim brady would greet you, with an irish blessing. We begin the service to celebrate his life. May the road rise up to me to, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sunshine warm up on your one, and the rains fall soft your fields. It until we meet again, may god hold you in the palm of his hand. Have walls forys the wind and a roof for the rain. You, those youer love near you, and all your heart might desire. May Saint Patrick guard you wherever you go and guide you in whatever you do. Protection be a blessing to always. Good morning. I am joe lockhart. Be in a very small fraternity of former White House Press secretarys. To walk up after a prayer, subtly different than what i used to say to myself. Please god, let me get to the next hour. On behalf of the brady family, we want to thank you for coming. Your presence means so much to them and to the family. We have some former press secretarys here. Thank you for comi
It was great to hear from the journalists about their relationship with jim. One of the advantages to having this many press secretaries together is that they agreed to hold a background briefing to go over some of the planning reports in detail. There has been allusions to a glass of water to. I hope the document proves us to be conservative estimates. Everyone has made reference here today about jim and sarahs work when it comes to gun safety and gun violence. Our next two speakers are people who have lived in the trenches on this issue over the last two decades and have made a difference in a terribly difficult and divisive issue. Dan gross is the president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. Before that, he started the center to prevent Youth Violence and has devoted much of his life to the cause. Gail hoffman, who many of you know, was central to putting this event together, has been at this since the late 1980s with handgun control, was the point person for all of us i
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