Nixon Hospitalized in Florida With Flu
Former President Richard M. Nixon was hospitalized Monday after coming down with flu during a vacation in the Bahamas.
“We don’t anticipate any problems. He should be fine,” said Dr. Louis Elias, who admitted Nixon to the Miami Heart Institute on Monday afternoon.
Nixon, 73, was suffering from mild dehydration, a temperature 1 degree above normal, fatigue and lethargy, Elias said. Nixon was receiving glucose, a saline solution and antibiotics, he said.
John Taylor, Nixon’s assistant, said in New York that the former President was “resting up and doing very well.”
Nixon had been visiting his friend, C. G. (Bebe) Rebozo, on exclusive Cat Cay in the Bahamas when he became ill Friday.
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