Former President Clinton hospitalized in New York
Former President Bill Clinton has been taken to hospital in New York on Thursday
experiencing chest pain, two sources told the press.
The sources did not know whether it was a “full heart attack.”
The White House was told of the situation, a source close to the former president told the media.
Clinton, 63, underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2004 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Doctors in 2005 removed scar tissue and fluid that had built up after that surgery.
A spokeswoman for that hospital said she had not heard anything about the report.
Most recently Clinton, 63, has been heading a U.S. relief program after the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. His wife, Hillary Clinton, is current U.S. secretary of state.
He was William Jefferson Blythe III by original name, born August 19, 1946 at Hope, Arkansas, U.S. Became the 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became only the second U.S. president to be impeached; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.
Bill Clinton’s father was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his son was born. His widow, Virginia Dell Blythe, married Roger Clinton, and, despite their unstable union (they divorced and then remarried) and her husband’s alcoholism, her son eventually took his stepfather’s name. Reared in part by his maternal grandmother, Bill Clinton developed political aspirations at an early age; they were solidified (by his own account) in July 1963, when he met and shook hands with President John F. Kennedy.
