{"id":116,"date":"2004-05-23T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/?p=116"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T22:58:06","slug":"bush-takes-a-tumble-on-bicycle-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/2004\/05\/23\/bush-takes-a-tumble-on-bicycle-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Takes a Tumble on Bicycle Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president, who suffered some abrasions and scratches on outing at his ranch, insists on finishing his ride. ‘He was fine,’ an aide says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source of this article<\/a> – Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2004.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Peter Wallsten | Times Staff Writer<\/em><\/div>\n
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President Bush took a spill during a Saturday afternoon bike ride on his ranch, suffering bruises and cuts that were visible later on his face just two days before he was to deliver a major prime-time speech on his Iraq policy.<\/p>\n

The president was nearing the end of a 17-mile ride on his mountain bike, accompanied by a Secret Service agent, a military aide and his personal physician, Richard Tubb, who treated him at the scene, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“It’s been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose,” Duffy said. “You know this president. He likes to go all-out. Suffice it to say he wasn’t whistling show tunes.”<\/div>\n
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Duffy said the president, who was wearing a helmet, suffered “minor abrasions and scratches on his chin, upper lip, nose, right hand and both knees.”<\/p>\n

“He was fine,” the spokesman added. “The Secret Service offered to drive him back to the house. He declined and finished his ride.”<\/p>\n

Bush has scheduled six speeches on Iraq in the coming weeks, White House officials said. The first speech is scheduled Monday at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.<\/p>\n

The result of the fall was reminiscent of an incident in January 2002, when Bush briefly lost consciousness after he choked on a pretzel while watching a football game. He suffered a scrape and a bruise on his face after falling off a couch and hitting his head on a coffee table. Later he joked about it, giving reporters a bag of pretzels with a note: “Chew slowly.”<\/p>\n

Democrats fall down on the job as well.<\/p>\n

In 1997, President Clinton ruptured a tendon in his right knee during a middle-of-the-night tumble on stairs at the Florida estate of professional golfer Greg Norman.<\/p>\n

And in May, Bush’s presumed Democratic challenger, Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, fell off his bike while riding with Secret Service agents through Concord, Mass. Kerry’s bike tires hit a patch of sand; he was not hurt.<\/p>\n

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