Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks on stage on the third day of the Democratic National Convention held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 21, 2024.
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Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Washington with a fever, a senior aide told NBC News on Monday.
Clinton, 78, was admitted to Medstar Georgetown University Hospital for examination and observation after developing a fever, said Angel Ureña, Clinton’s chief of staff.
“He is in good spirits and grateful for the care he is receiving,” Ureña said.
A source close to the 42nd President Clinton said the situation was “not urgent.”
“The former president will be fine,” the source said. “He has a fever and wanted to be checked. He is awake and alert.”
Clinton has faced several health problems since leaving office in 2001.
He underwent quadruple bypass surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 2004, and returned to the same hospital in 2010 for another heart procedure that resulted in the placement of two stents in his coronary arteries.
He was also hospitalized in California in 2021 for six days with a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream.
Clinton has actively campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris this year and recently released a memoir about his post-presidential life.
Clinton has spoken at every Democratic National Convention since 1976, including this August.
“I want to say this with all my heart,” he said in that speech. “I don’t know how much more of this we’ll see.”
