The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington has been the military's flagship hospital, where patients from privates to presidents have gone for care for more than a century. It is being divided and moved. (Associated Press)
Sylvia Clemmons, front, and Alice Giles, back, walk through the main lobby at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2001. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the military's flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care for more than a century, is closing its doors. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
** FILE ** In this Oct. 17, 2007, file photo, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a co-chair on the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Dole is hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, undergoing therapy after recovering from pneumonia, his spokesman says. Dole, 86, was admitted to the military hospital about three weeks ago with a respiratory condition, spokesman Michael Marshall said Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
