WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey was hospitalized Thursday after he collapsed during a late-night speech and lost consciousness.
"Oh, no, no!” people in the audience cried out as Mukasey slumped.
The 67-year-old Mukasey, wearing a black tie and tuxedo, was 15 to 20 minutes into an address about terrorism when he began shaking slightly and slurring his words. As he read from his text, he seemed to get stuck on a word, paused, then his head bowed slightly and he swayed. Three or four men in suits rushed on stage and caught him.
"The attorney general is conscious, conversant and alert,” Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said after doctors admitted Mukasey to George Washington
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