Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized: media

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Yahoo News/Reuters

(Reuters) - Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston, CBS Houston affiliate KHOU television reported on Wednesday, citing his office chief of staff.

Bush, 92, was in stable condition and "doing fine," Jean Becker told the television station. Bush is expected to go home in a couple of days, Becker told KHOU.

Reuters was not immediately able to reach the family spokesman Jim McGrath or the hospital where Bush was taken.

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Bush has used a wheelchair in his later years and was hospitalized twice in 2014 - once for seven weeks with pneumonia and again for breathing difficulties. In July 2015 he broke a bone in his neck in a fall at the family home in Maine. Bush's public appearances have been rare since he entered his 90s. In October 2015, Bush, sitting his wheelchair, wearing a brace on his neck and clad in a Houston Astros jersey, tossed out the first pitch at the team's playoff game against the Kansas City Royals.

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Just heard on the radio.

[JI7]

1. i know he is in poor health but i really do hope he can get through this

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I wish him a speedy recovery.

[mnhtnbb]

3. The cynic in me thinks how he timed this just right: better a trip to the hospital

than a trip to DC to honor the man-child.

[JI7]

4. they already said he wasn't going to go

but i wonder if he is kind of feeling like "fuck this" with trump coming in .

[mnhtnbb]

5. Given his history with the CIA, Poppy Bush wouldn't look kindly

on Trump trashing the intelligence agency.

[JI7]

6. it was the JEb campaign that paid for the first investigation

into trump and i'm sure poppy's knowledge about these things played a part.

while he is very physically weak i think mentally he is all there. and that's why he said he was voting for clinton.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Yes, that, too.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Poppy knows all

The BFEE has fingers in the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, John Birch Society among many others.

[bdamomma]

10. I hate to say

this but what would happen if this situation gets worse and overshadows swearing in, so a Bush overshadows a tRump........

[Cooley Hurd]

9. Get well, Poppy!

[Zoonart]

26. My prayers too...

Get well Poppy.

[Chasstev365]

11. The last freely elected Republican President.

[LovingA2andMI]

12. Agreed....

And wasn't a downright horrible piece of a Human Being like Cheeto Trumpskin either. Praying for wellness.

[SledDriver]

13. Good thing he has that excellent healthcare...

n/t

[MyNameGoesHere]

14. Well if your time is up

The 20th is just as good a day to move on as any.

[Bengus81]

15. Get well HW.....

I didn't agree with many of your policies as Pres but I honor your WWII service and you are the same age as my WWII father who passed in 2008.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. He is the same age (2 weeks older) than my WWII vet father would have been as well. nt

[democrank]

17. I wish him the best

and hope he stays strong.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Another possible parallel with Nixon

I think it was Maddow who pointed out that LBJ passed away just a few days after Nixon was inaugurated in 1972. I know GHWB isn't gone, but his health is poor and trips to the hospital are becoming more frequent. That's never a good sign for the elderly.

[yeoman6987]

22. I saw that too

The parallels are starting to take place. I hope he's fine but the situation like Nixon is interesting to say the least.

[DeminPennswoods]

33. Nixon's inauguration was also the last time

Dems boycotted the event en masse.

[Sunlei]

19. Happy he's "doing fine". He's fortunate to have USAs top tier health care access.

[steve2470]

20. get well soon, GHWB nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. I wish him well. For all his faults, we can be glad he signed that major civil rights

legislation, the ADA, in 1990.

[texasfiddler]

23. Get well President Bush!

Thank you for signing the 1990 Clean Air Act amendment addressing acid rain and ozone depletion.

[hexola]

24. Will George W still attend...?

Seems like a convenient excuse to get the whole family out of attending the Inauguration.

Can't blame them for playing this card, if so.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. I expect he will be there

He essentially went dark for the past 8 years, with occasional appearances only recently. In fact, Darth was out there way more than him.

[Sunlei]

29. He'll dance his happy dance like he did at Americas last "funeral"Funeral for American Democracy"

[BumRushDaShow]

30. He'll probably be loaded, so it might be more of a stagger than a dance.

[uppityperson]

27. I am so for those who care about him.

As Reagan's puppeteer?

[Aristus]

28. I have to admit, I still have some respect for the old man.

At least he put his life on the line, unlike Reagan, Der Trumpenfuhrer, and his own hapless fuck-up of a son.

[oberliner]

31. George H.W. Bush is now in ICU; Barbara Bush also hospitalized

:large

[Rhiannon12866]

32. MSNBC just announced he's been admitted to ICU, breathing issues

And Mrs. Bush has been admitted to the hospital as well.