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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (156740)	6/30/2001 9:33:25 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Cheney will be at work on Monday. By Edward Walsh Washington Post Staff Writer Doctors implanted a small device in the chest of Vice President Cheney today to regulate his heartbeat and later said the procedure went smoothly and that Cheney should be able to resume a normal work schedule Monday. The 60-year-old vice president, who has suffered four heart attacks since 1978 and had quadruple bypass surgery in 1988, underwent the implant procedure after tests confirmed that he is susceptible to bouts of potentially dangerous irregular heartbeats. At Camp David, where he was meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junischiro Koizumi, President Bush told reporters that "the operation went well." Bush also dismissed questions about whether Cheney's long history of heart disease would affect his ability to function as vice president. "He ought to work at a pace he is comfortable with," Bush said. "If I were to say, 'slow down, Mister Vice President,' he would say, 'Forget it.'" At George Washington University Hospital, where the tests and the implant procedure took place, Alan Wasserman, chairman of the department of medicine, said, "Everything went exceedingly well, exactly as planned." Cheney had lunch in the hospital recovery room early this afternoon. He left the hospital at 3:30 p.m. EDT this afternoon and is expected to return to work on Monday. Accompanied by his wife, Lynne, Cheney arrived at the hospital at 8 a.m. "Good," he said when asked how he was feeling. Asked if he was anticipating an easy day, Cheney replied, "I am." The decision to implant the small device, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, was made after tests confirmed that Cheney's heart was subject to "rhythm abnormalities." The problem was first discovered two weeks ago when Cheney, at the request of his doctors, wore a portable monitoring device that tracked his heart functions. During the 34 hours that Cheney was equipped with the monitoring device, he suffered four brief episodes of rapid heartbeats. He has said he was not aware of these episodes, which lasted one to two seconds each. Cheney's visit to George Washington University Hospital was his third for heart-related problems since the November election. He suffered his fourth heart attack, which was described as "mild," on Nov. 22. At that time, doctors inserted a small, spring-like device known as a stent in one of his arteries to correct a narrowing that was impeding the flow of blood to his heart. Suffering from chest pains, Cheney returned to the hospital in March and underwent a procedure known as a "balloon angioplasty" to reopen the same artery in which the stent was placed. washingtonpost.com Despite these episodes and his nearly quarter-century history of heart disease, Cheney has insisted that he has no doubt about his physical ability to perform his often high stress job. He said Friday that he expects to complete his term as vice president and would serve a second term if his health permits and Bush asks him to do so. © 2001 The Washington Post Company

To: jlallen who wrote (156740)	6/30/2001 9:49:09 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Has Bush kept one campaign promise? If so please name one. So many ones broken already I can't keep track. As for Clinton he kept most of his and we had a relatively very successful 8 years in this world. People are already starting to miss those days. So when you talk about liars, watcn your comparisons. All politicians exaggerate and lie. Your boy hasn't kept one promise yet except to his special interest cronies to let them rip consumers off.