Ex-president George HW Bush recovering in hospital after breathing problems
Former US president George HW Bush has been in a Houston hospital since Saturday after he experienced shortness of breath, a family spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Washington: Former US president George HW Bush has been in a Houston hospital since Saturday after he experienced shortness of breath, a family spokesman said on Wednesday.
"Doctors and everyone are very pleased, and we hope to have him out soon," McGrath wrote.
Bush is the father of former president George W Bush and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who sought the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
The elder Bush, a Republican like his sons, was vice president during Ronald Reagan`s two White House terms before being elected president in 1988. He lost his reelection bid to Bill Clinton, then the Democratic governor of Arkansas, in 1992.
A naval pilot during World War Two, Bush became an occasional skydiver after leaving the presidency and marked his 90th birthday with a jump out of a helicopter.
He 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. Sitting in his wheelchair, wearing a brace on his neck and clad in a Houston Astros jersey, he tossed out the first pitch at the team`s playoff game against the Kansas City Royals in October 2015.
In 2016, he marked the 75th anniversary of Japan`s attack on Pearl Harbor by attending a ceremony at his library at Texas A&M University, where Bob Dole, the former Republican senator from Kansas, received an award for public service.
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