“Neither seems to need to be in the hospital,” Baker spokesman John Williams told CNN on Thursday night. And although both experienced symptoms, James Baker was able to do office work from home, and Susan Baker felt good enough to cook, Williams said. “He said he felt crooked.”
Baker first gained national prominence as chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, and later became secretary of the Treasury. While serving as Secretary of State to President George HW Bush, he was a key figure in forming a coalition of dozens of countries to join the United States in expelling Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
Baker is currently the honorary chairman of the Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University, and senior partner at the Baker Botts law firm. But he has not shot out of politics in recent years.
“A lot of people will tell you that they think it’s counterproductive,” Baker said at the time about Trump’s Twitter habit. “Running a business and running a government are two completely different businesses.”
“The one thing I would worry about if I were one of his senior officials would not know until 2:30 or 3 in the morning when you see the last tweet what the policy was,” he continued. “Because when a president of the United States speaks, he speaks … he makes policy.”
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