“Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spent time in an intensive care unit after entering a military hospital on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. officials, pointing to a more serious medical condition than what the Pentagon previously disclosed,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Pentagon chief remains at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center but has now resumed his full duties.”
Politico: Pentagon took three days to inform White House of Austin’s hospitalization.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.