WALTER REED HOSPITAL; BRIGADIER-GENERAL FREDERICK HUGHES READING BULLETIN.



TRANSCRIPT: "SINCE THE LAST BULLETIN IN GENERAL EISENHOWER'S CONDITION HAS REMAINED ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED. HE IS RESTING COMFORTABLY. HIS PNEUMONIA IS BEING TREATED VIGOROUSLY WITH THE APPROPRIATE ANTI-BIOTICS. HE CONTINUES TO RECEIVE INTRA-VENOUS FEEDING AND MEDICATION, AND OXYGEN BY NASAL CARTRIDGES.



HIS HEART ACTION IS BEING CONSTANTLY MONITORED. HIS CARDIAC STATUS HAS REMAINED STABLE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. MRS EISENHOWER HAS VISITED WITH THE GENERAL FREQUENTLY. DAVID AND JULIE EISENHOWER HAVE KEPT A PRE-SCHEDULED APPOINTMENT, AND HAVE ALSO VISITED BRIEFLY WITH GENERAL AND MRS EISENHOWER. THANK YOU."




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Background: FORMER PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WAS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE TODAY AFTER DOCTORS REPORTED PNEUMONIA HAD SET BACK HIS RECOVERY FROM A SERIES OF HEART-ATTACKS AND A RECENT, RISKY, ABDOMINAL OPERATION.

THE 72-YEAR-OLD WAR LEADER WAS STATED TO BE GENERALLY WEAKER, WITH HIS HEART UNDER CONSIDERABLE STRAIN. GENERAL EISENHOWER HAS BEEN IN HOSPITAL SINCE THE FIRST OF HIS FOUR MAJOR HEART ATTACKS LAST MAY.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL FREDERICK HUGHES JNR., READING A HOSPITAL BULLETIN SAID: