Reply #4: back when Bush had the back "bulge" during the debates... [View All]

...one of the contending theories of what it was, was that it was this defibrillator. Enhanced photos of the bulge during the debates and in miscellaneous other * pics were compared with photos of this machine. It was discussed extensively, with "experts" taking all sides of the arguments. (The other leading contender for the identity of the "bulge" was the main body of a device for receiving encrypted voice transmission from a prompter.)

I suspect this story of Bush needing a defibrillator is an outgrowth of the earlier extensive coverage of the "defibrillator bulge" speculation. Without clear independent verification, I would file it away in the category of "intriguing but unproven."