Former U.S. President George Bush visits a tent camp for earthquake survivors on the outskirts of Islamabad on January 17, 2006 HOUSTON Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston, his office chief of staff, Jean Becker, tells KHOU 11 News, KSDK’s sister station in Houston. Becker says the former president, 92, is in stable condition and is “doing fine,” but the reason Bush was hospitalized was not immediately disclosed.