Former President George H.W. Bush Hospitalized
BALTIMORE (WJZ) - Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston.
CBS News reports that his office chief of staff told reporters that the former president is in Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.
A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says the 92-year-old was taken to the hospital over the weekend for shortness of breath.
Spokesman Jim McGrath says in an email to The Associated Press that Bush has responded well to treatments and that doctors are pleased with his progress. McGrath says the oldest living U.S. president was taken to the hospital on Saturday and he hopes that he can go home soon.
Bush served as U.S. president from 1989 to 1993. He has a form of Parkinson's disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility.
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