Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was admitted to a Washington-area hospital on Monday.
“President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” Clinton’s deputy chief of staff Angel Ureña wrote on X. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”
“The former president will be fine,” a source close to Clinton told NBC News. “He developed a fever and wanted to be checked out. He is awake and alert.”
Clinton, 78, was at home in Washington when he was taken to the hospital, CNN reports.
The former president was hospitalized with a non-Covid infection that spread to the blood stream in 2021.
He also has a history of cardiac issues, requiring a stent to open an artery in 2010 and a quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2004.
Clinton has history of health scares since leaving office (PA Archive)
Throughout the fall, Clinton campaigned on behalf of fellow Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in her ultimately unsuccessful race against Donald Trump.
On the trail, Clinton hammered Trump and made the occasional joke about his own age.
“Two days ago I turned 78 – the oldest man in my family,” Clinton told the Democratic National Convention in August. “And the only personal vanity I want to assert, is that I’m still younger than Donald Trump.”
“[H]ow does Donald Trump use his voice? Mostly to talk about himself—his vengeance, vendettas, complaints, conspiracies,” the former president added. “The next time you hear him, don’t count the lies, count the I’s. He’s like the tenor warming up before the opera: me, me, me, me.”
Clinton’s name also surfaced during lighter fare this year, when actor Gwyneth Paltrow told the long-running YouTube series Hot Ones that Clinton very publicly fell asleep during a screening of her 1996 film Emma at the White House.
“True – he was snoring right in front of me,” Paltrow said.
In November, Clinton published a memoir, Citizen, about his time in public life after leaving the presidency.
