Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 21, 2024.
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former president bill clinton A senior aide told NBC News on Monday that he had been hospitalized in Washington after coming down with a fever.
Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Angel Ureña, said the 78-year-old Clinton “had symptoms of fever and was transported to Georgetown University MedStar Hospital for testing and observation.”
“He is in good spirits and grateful for the care he is receiving,” Urena said.
A source close to the 42nd President Clinton said the situation was “not an emergency.”
“The former president will be fine,” the source said. “He had a fever and wanted to be tested. He was awake and alert.”
Clinton has faced multiple health scare Since leaving office in 2001.
he experienced Four-way bypass operation 2004 at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital return In 2010, he went to the same hospital for another heart surgery, where two stents were inserted into his coronary arteries.
He also Hospitalized for six days In California in 2021 urinary tract infection spread into his blood.
Clinton has strongly supported Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris this year and recently published a memoir about his life after the presidency.
Clinton has spoken at every Democratic National Convention since 1976, including this August.
“I want to say this from the bottom of my heart,” he said. say in that address. “I don’t know how many more events like this I can attend.”
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