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President Biden walks out of the White Home on Wednesday to board Marine One for a brief journey to Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Middle in Bethesda, Md., for his annual bodily.
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President Biden walks out of the White Home on Wednesday to board Marine One for a brief journey to Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Middle in Bethesda, Md., for his annual bodily.
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President Biden received his newest bodily on Wednesday at Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Middle.
Biden advised reporters that none of his outcomes had modified from final yr, when in a Feb. 2023 memo, his longtime doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor concluded Biden was a “wholesome, vigorous, 80-year-old male, who’s match to efficiently execute the duties of the presidency.”
O’Connor’s up to date abstract, to be launched in a while Wednesday, will likely be intently scrutinized since Biden, now 81, is the oldest individual ever to carry the workplace, and voters have expressed concern that he’s too previous for a second four-year time period within the job.
These questions have been amplified earlier this month by a special counsel report about Biden’s dealing with of categorised materials that described him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning aged man with a poor reminiscence.”
Biden’s medical studies from November 2021 and February 2023 didn’t embody any references to assessments or evaluations of his reminiscence or cognition.
Biden was angry with the assessment within the particular counsel report, telling reporters “my reminiscence is okay” — earlier than mistakenly referring to the president of Mexico when he meant Egypt. The White Home has since taken pains to point out Biden managing a busy schedule of marketing campaign journey and different public appearances, the place he typically tries to make use of humor to reassure individuals about his age.
“I do know I am solely 40 years previous — instances two … I’ll not run as quick as I used to,” he advised donors at an occasion final week in Beverly Hills. “I have been round lengthy sufficient to hopefully — with age — have a bit little bit of knowledge about how we will get issues achieved.”
Biden has additionally famous that at age 77, former President Donald Trump — the front-runner within the race to be the Republican candidate for November’s presidential election — is sort of as previous as he’s, and likewise generally mixes up names.
