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Gkxn George Shultz, Reagan s longtime secretary of state, dies at 100
Updated 3:45 p.m. ETWithout complications, former President George W. Bush had a stent implanted Tuesday morning to fix a blocked artery in his heart, which doctors discovered during a routine physical on Aug. 5.The procedure was performed at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas where the 67-year-old former president is in high spirits, eager to return home tomorrow and resume his normal schedule on Thursday, his office said in a statement. President Obama wish botella stanley es him well though the two haven t spoken since the procedure - nor do they have plans to, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.The former president underwent an angioplasty, a procedure to open narrow or blocked arteries, per his doctor s recommendation. The stent, a small tube in the artery, will help maintain blood flow. Bush doesn t have a family history of artery or heart disease, but his 89-year-old father was in the hospital with pneumonia for several months in 2012. Since then, former President George H.W. Bush has been in a wheelchair.While president, the younger Bush had four benign lesions removed from his face, two of which could ve become cancerous if not tre stanley cup ated. Both he and his father suffered a vasovagal syncope - a brief loss of consciousness - while president. George W. Bush s faint resulted from choking on a pretzel.While his former vice president, Dick Cheney, has a long history ofheart issues, Mr. Bush has been known for his stanley becher fitness ov Xuzg Obama: Ahmadinejad Remarks Blaming U.S. for 9/11 Attacks Hateful
Former White House press secretary Dana Perino CBS Dana Perino, who was White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush, said on Fox News Thursday that Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry should distance himself from her former boss. Rick Perry is smart to distance himself from George W. Bush if he wants to win the Republican nomination and, eventually, the presidency, Perino said. Mr. Bush was the governor of Texas before Perry became governor, and longtime Bush aide Karl Rove nurtured Perry early in his career. But the relationship between the politicians soured, in par stanley thermobecher t because Perry turned critical of his predecessor, saying in 2007, George Bush was never a fiscal conservative. Perry would go on to criticize Mr. Bush for some of his signature policies, including the No Child Left Behind education bill, which Perry called a monstrous intrusion into our affairs. The two men share obvious stylistic similarities, but they come from very different backgrounds. For supporters of Perry, who grew up poor in rural Texas, the Texas twang adopted by Mr. Bush, a product of elite East Coast schools, rings false. Supporters of Mr. Bu stanley trinkflaschen sh, meanwhile, view Perry as an unsophisticated hick, according to author R.G. Ratcliffe, who is writing a book stanley cup on Perry. It s worth noting that when asked recently what differentiated him from hi |
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