Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized as precaution, according to spokesman

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McGrath said Bush was hospitalized due to "a persistent cough that prevented him from getting proper rest" and that his condition was "resolved".

Former US president George H.W. Bush, patriarch of a dynastic political family, is in a hospital recovering from a mild case of pneumonia, his office said Tuesday.

"He is OK, he is going to be great", McGrath added.

This comes just 3 months after the illness forced the 92-year-old former president to spend 2 weeks in the ICU. His wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, 91, had an overlapping stay at the same hospital for treatment of bronchitis.

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In March, the Bushes were honored by the Mensch International Foundation, for their service to others.

George Herbert Walker Bush, born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, also served as a congressman, Central Intelligence Agency director and Ronald Reagan's vice president. Bush in Houston today.

He served as president from 1989 to 1993.

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