Nixon Leaves Florida Hospital
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MIAMI — A depressed former President Richard M. Nixon was released from the Miami Heart Institute today, two days after he was hospitalized for treatment of a viral infection.
Nixon, 73, and his wife, Pat, were flying back to New York, said Dr. Lewis Elias. Nixon, whose presidency saw the first manned moon landings and final approval for the space shuttle program, was “depressed” by Tuesday’s explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, Elias said. The former President fell ill last Friday while visiting his friend Charles (Bebe) Rebozo in the Bahamas.
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