CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — Right until he was wheeled into an operating room for a heart procedure, Bill Clinton was on the phone, talking about Haiti earthquake relief. An aide took the phone away from him.
On Friday, the 63-year-old former president seemed to have returned to multitasking, just a day after having a clogged artery reopened and two stents inserted into his chest.
“I feel great,” Clinton said to reporters from the driveway outside his home. “The doctors and the hospital crew did a great job. . . . I even did a couple miles on the treadmill today.”
Aides said Clinton’s second heart procedure in five years seemed unlikely to slow down his brutal work schedule, which included two trips to Haiti, stumping for Senate candidate Martha Coakley and attending an economic summit in Switzerland — all in just over a month.
“He’s working as hard as he’s ever worked. . . . He’s never going to stop,” said Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist who helped guide Clinton’s first presidential bid in 1992.
