Former president `feeling great'

Philadelphia - Former US president, Mr Gerald Ford, walked out of a Philadelphia hospital smiling and waving to well-wishers …

Philadelphia - Former US president, Mr Gerald Ford, walked out of a Philadelphia hospital smiling and waving to well-wishers yesterday, a week after suffering a minor stroke during the Republican National Convention.

"I'm feeling great," Mr Ford (87) remarked to reporters before getting into a dark blue Cadillac sedan outside Hahnemann University Hospital.

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