She suddenly collapsed, but unfortunately got back up.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/....ap/index.html
Aide: Hillary Clinton collapses
Monday, January 31, 2005 Posted: 1:55 PM EST (1855 GMT)
BUFFALO, New York (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton collapsed Monday during a speech on Social Security, the result of a 24-hour flu bug, an aide told The Associated Press.
Clinton was speaking in warm room in front of 150 people, according to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"She was weak and needed to sit down. She fainted," the aide said.
Colleen DiPirro, president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, told WBEN-AM radio that Clinton told the crowd she was feeling weak and had had a stomach virus. Clinton started to speak then collapsed, DiPirro told the radio station.
Clinton, 57, walked out of the private club where she was to speak under her own power, smiling, the club's general manager said.
"I saw her walk out the door by herself, she smiled and said 'Thank you'," said Saturn Club general manager Vincent Tracy.
Later Monday, she arrived at a Catholic college where she was to speak about health care. Several hundred people were waiting to hear that address. There were also dozens of anti-abortion protesters waiting at the college.
In September, Clinton's 58-year-old husband, former President Bill Clinton, underwent quadruple bypass surgery.
During an earlier editorial board meeting Monday at The Buffalo News, Hillary Clinton complained about suffering from a flu-like bug that affected several of her staff members during a weekend retreat in Westchester.
Clinton lives in Westchester County.
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