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LOS ANGELES (AP) - After he was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt, Ronald Reagan described the experience simply in one of his presidential diaries: "Getting shot hurts."
That excerpt and many others form a portrait of an uncomplicated and amiable man who — despite occasional periods of worry and bursts of temper — took his eight years in the White House pretty much in stride.
Excerpts from the writings, which are in the custody of Reagan's widow, Nancy, were published in the June issue of Vanity Fair magazine, which went on newsstands Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles. They were edited by historian Douglas Brinkley for a book.
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