Mike Huckabee Saves Life with Heimlich Maneuver

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Mike Huckabee performed the Heimlich maneuver on Robert Pittenger, potentially saving his life during a North Carolina Republican Party convention lunch. This incident occurred just before Huckabee's scheduled speech, as confirmed by state GOP spokesman Brent Woodcox. The discussion also references a false alarm regarding Hillary Clinton's mention of the Corbomite Maneuver and highlights a historical anecdote involving Bill Frist and David Petraeus.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee did more than just give a speech at the North Carolina Republican Party convention. He also may have saved a life.

State GOP spokesman Brent Woodcox says the former Arkansas governor did the Heimlich maneuver on Robert Pittenger, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, at a lunch before Huckabee gave his speech Saturday.[continued]
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/07/the-huckabee-heimlich-may-have-saved-life/

It was reported that Hillary recently threatened to use the Corbomite Maneuver, but that was apparently a false alarm.
 
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I read an article about a year ago that said Bill Frist and David Petraeus first met way back when Petraeus was still a Captain running training drills and Frist was an army surgeon. Petraeus was accidentally shot during a drill and it was Frist that operated on him and saved his life.

Thought that was pretty interesting.