She wore a blue hairnet, had a tube in her throat, and lay under a white blanket, appearing alert, the Associated Press reported.

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Hilda in her red down jacket came out with the dog as she parked: it was a short-haired terrier, alert and intelligent, white with a brown patch over one eye.

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But for hardcore Bush-watchers among the White House press corps, ever on the alert for a "Bushism", the line that stole the show was his reference to the revered New Yorker, as "some East Coast magazine".

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Dressed in olive green overalls and white hospital slippers, his black hair neatly trimmed, his eyes bright and alert, he was sitting up on the edge of his bed after performing his noon prayers.

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