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Mukasey takes get-well call from Bush
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-11-21 22:52 "The attorney general is conscious, conversant and alert," Carr said after Mukasey was hospitalized. "His vital statistics are strong and he is in good spirits." Talamona said Mukasey's wife, Susan, was with him at the hospital. After collapsing, Mukasey lay on the stage for about 10 minutes being attended to by his FBI security detail and medical personnel at the dinner, said eyewitness Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Though he lost consciousness initially, Mukasey appeared to be awake when he was taken from the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in northwest Washington, she said. "It was hard to watch such a thing," Thernstrom said. "It was horrible." A Republican staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jack Daly, who was also at the dinner, said in an e-mail to colleagues sent at 10:20 p.m. EST: "AG Mukasey collapsed in the middle of his keynote address at tonight's fed-soc dinner. He is still on stage after ten minutes and his security detail has called 911. The paramedics just arrived." Twenty minutes later, Daly added in another e-mail: "Mukasey did regain consciousness before he was taken away." Bush, scheduled to attend a weekend financial summit in Peru, was quickly informed about Mukasey's collapse, Perino said. She said, "The president has him in his thoughts and will be kept apprised and hopes that he will be back up and at 'em again soon." |
