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White House Reporters GASP As MAGA Jerk INSULTS Biden (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 OP
Biden is not the only President to experience ill health sickness magicarpet Jul 2024 #1
I remember that incident well. badhair77 Jul 2024 #2
If you can locate it ,... that would be a treat. magicarpet Jul 2024 #3
Here's part of it. badhair77 Jul 2024 #4
More info on Former President GHW Bush suffering a bad case of jet lag on a trip to Japan. magicarpet Jul 2024 #5

magicarpet

(18,520 posts)
1. Biden is not the only President to experience ill health sickness
Wed Jul 3, 2024, 08:52 PM
Jul 2024

.... compounded by a nasty case of jet lag during Presidential international travel.

Poppy Bush was on a trip to Japan. They held a State Dinner in his honor. Poppy Bush promptly up chucked and barfed all over the Japanese Prime Minister avd spewed vomit all over the head table of dignitaries.

If memory serves well, they loaded Poppy Bush up on Halcion, a strong sedative, to control his jet lag.

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While attending a banquet hosted by Japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa on January 8, 1992, American president George H. W. Bush fainted after vomiting into Miyazawa's lap at around 20:20 JST. Doctors later attributed the incident to a case of acute gastroenteritis.
《Above sourced from Wikipedia.》

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badhair77

(5,182 posts)
2. I remember that incident well.
Wed Jul 3, 2024, 09:03 PM
Jul 2024

SNL treated with due respect the next weekend. If I find the clip I’ll post it.

badhair77

(5,182 posts)
4. Here's part of it.
Wed Jul 3, 2024, 09:53 PM
Jul 2024

It starts with the ABC clip then splits to Dana Carvey as George H W Bush.

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I hope it works. Sorry I couldn’t find the entire skit.

magicarpet

(18,520 posts)
5. More info on Former President GHW Bush suffering a bad case of jet lag on a trip to Japan.
Thu Jul 4, 2024, 08:37 AM
Jul 2024

Former President G.H.W. Bush given Halcion a strong sedative to control jet lag on an Asian junket. Pukes then faints into the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister during a state dinner in Bush's honor.

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From the archives of United,Press International,...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush took half of a widely used but controversial sleeping pill, Halcion, while in Japan to help cope with jet lag.

Bush told a television interviewer Wednesday he took the medication because he was having difficulty sleeping. Japan time is 14 hours ahead of the United States.

Shortly after his collapse at a state dinner from what doctors said was intestinal flu, Bush also was treated with Tigan to hold down nausea.

Halcion is one of the most widely prescribed medications worldwide, with sales of the drug reported strong in 90 countries until it was banned in Britain and several other countries on Oct. 2.

More at link below:

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/09/Bush-took-controversial-sleeping-medication-Halcion/5577694933200/

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