George H.W. Bush Is Singing in the ICU
The latest statement, after a string of alternately bad, worse, and pretty good updates from bedside in Houston, arrived Friday afternoon from Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath.
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The former president's curious two-month visit to a Houston hospital has come to a healthy end, and he'll be returning home today, according to NBC News but not yet his back-and-forth family spokesperson.
The latest statement, after a string of alternately bad, worse, and pretty good updates from bedside in Houston, arrived Friday afternoon from Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath.
After alternating statements from his family spokesman Wednesday, a different family aide swooped in late Thursday with some good news: "put the harps back in the closet," former chief of staff Jean Becker wrote in an email to Bush family and friends.
The former president has been in Houston's Methodist Hospital for the past seven days with a concerning case of bronchitis.
While Mitt Romney promised Thursday that "I'm not going to apologize for my dad's success" even as his campaign has worked to erase it from memory, portraying Romney's childhood as middle class despite little indulgences like a cook, a maid, and a laundress.
Anne Hathaway has been ordered to drop four dress sizes in less than three weeks, ABC is demanding changes to Madonna's racy new perfume ad, and George H.W. Bush went rogue after endorsing Mitt Romney.
George H.W. Bush has already said he'd support Mitt Romney for president, but on now he's agreed to make a political news event out of it, telling the Romney campaign he'd be endorsing their candidate later in the week.
Former President George H.W. Bush told the Houston Chronicle today that Mitt Romney is "the best choice for us," adding (rather diplomatically) that he isn't Newt Gingrich's "biggest advocate."
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