Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a hospital in Maine on Sunday, NPR reported. Spokesman Jim McGrath said he was hospitalized at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford, Maine, for low blood pressure and fatigue. He was "awake and alert, and not in any discomfort" at the time.
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