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Ex-President George H.W. Bush to stay hospitalized
AP Published in Ahram Online on 25 - 12 - 2014

Former President George H.W. Bush will remain overnight Wednesday in a hospital where he was taken after experiencing shortness of breath, a family spokesman said.
The 90-year-old Bush had been taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital on Tuesday evening as a precaution, spokesman Jim McGrath said. Bush had a "good day" and his prognosis "remains positive," McGrath said in an email late on Wednesday.
Bush spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care at the same hospital while being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues. He was discharged in January 2013, after nearly two months in the hospital.
It was not immediately clear if Bush, who is the oldest living former president, would be able to spend this Christmas at home.
President Barack Obama, who is vacationing in Hawaii, has been notified about Bush's hospital admission.
"President Obama and the first lady send their good wishes to the former president and the entire Bush family during this holiday season," said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.
Bush made two public appearances last month. He attended an event at Texas A&M University with his son, former President George W. Bush, and served as the coin-toss captain for the Houston Texans during a Nov. 23 game that honored the U.S. Armed Forces.
The elder Bush was a naval aviator in World War II — at one point the youngest in the Navy — and was shot down over the Pacific.
Bush served two terms as Ronald Reagan's vice president before being elected America's 41st president in 1988. After one term, highlighted by the success of the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait, he lost to Democrat Bill Clinton amid voters' concerns about the economy.
The elder Bush has skydived on at least three of his birthdays since leaving the White House. In June, he celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. During the winter, Bush and his wife, Barbara, live in Houston.
Bush, also a former U.S. ambassador to China and CIA director, suffers from a form of Parkinson's disease that has forced him in recent years to use a motorized scooter or wheelchair for mobility.
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