Washington (CNN) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney was "feeling good" a day after being hospitalized with chest pains, a source who spoke to Cheney said Tuesday.

The source said Cheney watched some Olympics coverage on television Monday night hours after being admitted to George Washington University Hospital in Washington, but he was in a "holding pattern" until more tests were conducted Tuesday morning.

Cheney's doctors were evaluating his situation, a family source said. Another source said Cheney, 69, is up and in touch with his family and friends.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, called Cheney's mobility "a good sign."

"If he's up and walking around, talking to friends. ... That probably means he's not in the intensive care unit," Gupta said. "They're not doing active procedures on his heart. He's not on a breathing machine or anything like that. No one ever said he was. It's obviously a good sign."



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Cheney has a long history of heart problems. He has suffered four heart attacks since 1978 when he was 37. He suffered his second heart attack in 1984 and a third in 1988 before undergoing quadruple bypass surgery to unblock his arteries. His fourth heart attack occurred in November 2000. At that time, doctors inserted a stent to open an artery.

The following year, doctors implanted a heart monitoring device to keep track of his heart rhythm and slow it down if necessary. In 2008, he underwent a procedure to restore his heart to a normal rhythm after doctors found he was experiencing a recurrence of atrial fibrillation.

Since leaving office in 2009, the former vice president has been a vocal critic of the Obama administration, most recently on ABC's "This Week," where he railed against its policies on terrorism and the Iraq war.

He has accused the administration of failing to treat the fight against terrorists as war, citing the decision to try accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court, the move to treat the failed Christmas Day airline bomber as a suspect in the U.S. criminal justice system and actions to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Cheney also served in the administrations of former Presidents Nixon, Ford and George H.W. Bush.

What was the point...?

and the liberal crowd goest wild!

Some serious pricks over at DailyKOS, let me tell you.

What was the point...?

Not particularly. I didn't think Clinton being hospitalized and having an angioplasty was, either. They're not our vice-president or president anymore, respectively, though at least Clinton is still active and loosely tied to office (with Hillary being Secretary of State and Clinton continuing on goodwill missions).

*shrug* I'm also welcome to post in threads I find to be spurious in nature, and whose OP seems to be made more in the spirit of "ZOMG!There are assholes...and they're on teh internets!1!" than the discussion of the topic being referenced.

My two cents.

*shrug* I'm also welcome to post in threads I find to be spurious in nature, and whose OP seems to be made more in the spirit of "ZOMG!There are assholes...and they're on teh internets!1!" than the discussion of the topic being referenced.

My two cents.

and the liberal crowd goest wild!

Some serious pricks over at DailyKOS, let me tell you.

I think Cheney counts as a special case (at least for me). I think it's appalling when people like the Kos or Malkin crowds revel in the personal tragedies of their political opponents simply because they disagree over certain policies. But for me, Cheney's not just a conservative that gets my goat on things like social security or global warming; he's the architect of a torture regime that constitutes the most repulsive betrayal of American values I've witnessed in my lifetime. He is a war criminal who deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison, and though I don't hope for his death (other than, perhaps, via court-ordered execution for his crimes), I would certainly not mourn it.

Which is a load of total bullshit.

Cheney is not "betraying American values." We did far worse **** than waterboarding to people in the 60s and 70s, some even to US citizens.