PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Former South Dakota senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern was released from a Florida hospital Thursday after undergoing tests, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Patty McAnnally, nursing supervisor at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., said the 89- year- old McGovern was released in the afternoon.
McGovern was admitted Tuesday for tests to determine why he occasionally passes out and loses his ability to speak, said Ann McGovern, the politician’s daughter.
“ The testing has been inconclusive,” Ann McGovern told The Associated Press on Thursday evening.
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