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3:30 a.m. November 22, 2000: Cheney Suffers Heart Attack

2000-11-22 3:30 a.m.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney is rushed to the hospital with chest pains. The press later reports that Cheney has suffered a “very slight” heart attack. Doctors operate and insert a stent in one of his arteries. He will be released from the hospital on November 24. [US News and World Report, 12/13/2000; Leip, 2008]