Former US President Bill Clinton, 78, was hospitalized in Washington on Monday December 23 with a fever, his deputy chief of staff announced on X.(New window). “President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital this afternoon for tests and remains under observation after developing a fever. His spirits are good and he is grateful for the quality of care he has received ,” Angel Ureña wrote on the social network.
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, Bill Clinton has already had to be hospitalized in the past , such as in 2021, when he developed a urinary tract infection that turned into sepsis. In 2004, he underwent quadruple coronary bypass surgery to free four blocked arteries as well as angioplasty in 2010.
Bill Clinton, a brilliant Democrat who won the White House in the early 1990s, served two presidential terms driven by American prosperity, but marred by scandals, including the famous Monica Lewinsky affair.
He had a second public life after the presidency, in the form of a decade devoted to humanitarian work with his foundation, or high-flying diplomatic missions, however increasingly in the shadow of his wife Hillary Clinton , an unsuccessful candidate for the White House in 2016.
