Former vice president Dick Cheney was hospitalized with chest pains at George Washington Hospital in Washington D.C. The AP reports, "Cheney assistant Peter Long issued a statement that the 69-year-old Cheney was resting comfortably and his doctors were evaluating the situation." Cheney has had four heart attacks, including a quadruple bypass surgery, and he was given a pacemaker in 2001. The former vice president has been busy lately, blasting the Obama administration about the terror trials and appearing at the CPAC meeting while defending Bush administration decisions.
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