At other times, though, Brady was described as speaking in a “slow, measured cadence” (De Witt, 1990) that lacked the emotional inflections of normal speech.
After his injury, Brady also tended to be a bit more brutally honest than people in the political sphere are generally inclined to be. For example, he made highly unflattering remarks about some of his former colleagues in the White House, sometimes making those around him a bit uncomfortable (Bumiller, 1982). Although these tendencies may simply reflect the change in outlook that accompanies a brush with death, they may also reflect a failure of his damaged frontal lobes to inhibit socially inappropriate behavior.
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