AUSTIN, Texas, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Former President George
H.W. Bush is in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital
and is in “guarded condition,” family spokesman Jim McGrath said
Wednesday.
“The president is alert and conversing with medical staff,
and is surrounded by family,” McGrath said in a statement.
“Following a series of setbacks including a persistent
fever, President Bush was admitted to the intensive care unit at
Methodist Hospital on Sunday where he remains in guarded
condition,” McGrath said.
Doctors at Methodist Hospital “continue to be cautiously
optimistic about the current course of treatment,” McGrath said.
The 88-year-old was admitted to the hospital Nov. 23 for
bronchitis.
Bush, the 41st U.S. president and a Republican, took office
in 1989 and served one term in the White House. The father of
former President George W. Bush, he also served as a
congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, envoy to China,
CIA director and vice president for two terms under Ronald
Reagan.
