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...spokesman for the Corpus Christi hospital that is caring for Harry Whittington, the 78-year old lawyer who was accidentally shot by the Vice President over the weekend, announced that Whittington had suffered "atrial fibrillation" (a particular type of irregular heart rhythm) and a "minor heart attack." Beyond that, few details were immediately available...
...Whittington was listed in stable condition. "He seems in good spirits. He's talking and conversing," said Yvonne Wheeler, a spokeswoman for Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial. "His condition is really looking good. They're just taking every precautionary measure. Recovery looks very positive." Added Peter Banko, the hospital's administrator, "He is a true gentleman... I hate to say sweetheart because it makes me sound like a female, but he is wonderful to be around. He is joking with the staff." Whittington was expected to be taken out of intensive care Monday afternoon and moved to a trauma...
...described by the White House spokesman at a pair of rowdy briefings and in a follow-up e-mail to reporters, Cheney accidentally shot a 78-year-old hunting companion on a ranch near Corpus Christi on Saturday at about 5:30 p.m. local time, or 6:30 p.m. in Washington. A traveling aide to the Vice President gave what one official privately called a "heads up" to the staff at the White House Situation Room, who notified White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. He called President Bush around 7:30 p.m. "to inform him that there...
...year-old fellow hunter, doesn't seem to be hurt too badly. It was birdshot, after all and not a bullet that hit the Texas lawyer while they were hunting in South Texas. Wire reports say Whittington is still in the hospital. The story was broken by the Corpus Christi Caller Times. According to the Vice President's Office, medical personnel, always in great abundance around a Vice President-let alone one who has had four heart attacks-were quick to clean up the blood from Whittington's cheeks and arm. Whittington was quoted by the wires saying...
...that did not happen right away. Cheney insisted on carrying out a strategy he had worked out with the ranch owner, Katharine Armstrong, in which she was to call a trusted reporter at the local paper, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, to disclose the news. Caller-Times Managing Editor Shane Fitzgerald told TIME that the newspaper had done its usual nightly checks with local law enforcement agents on Saturday and had been told nothing was going on. Armstrong started leaving messages at the newspaper at 8 a.m., reached a reporter by 11 a.m. and the newspaper posted its story...