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In March 1997, Congress held a bipartisan retreat for families in
Hershey, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to heal wounds over bitter
congressional fights on welfare reform and balancing the budgets.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough gave a remarkable
speech on respect and decency. Members ate together, danced
together, shared stories, and got to know better the members of the
other party and their children.

My wife and I were joined at our table for lunch during the retreat
by Sen. Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. We had a delightful time
getting to know each other. Biden was witty and charming, with no
stuttering or incomplete thoughts. Our wives shared professional
experiences. We were impressed with them.

It pains me greatly to see a decline in President Biden, and it
worries me. He was 54 years old then and is 78 years old now. People
age differently. My own mother is 93 and still sharp, but younger
friends have mental deterioration that is significant.

Why am I concerned about Biden’s mental acuity?



More recently he’s made weird statements, telling one online
audience that when he was a patient at Walter Reed hospital, the
nurses would “breathe in my nostrils to make me move.”

It’s gotten worse since the election. In a CNN interview, he opined,
“Um, you know there’s a, uh, during World War II, uh you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing, that uh, you know, was totally
different, than a, than the, he called it, you know, the WWII, he
had the War Production Board.” In March he forgot the name of his
Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, at a White House event, calling the
Pentagon chief “the guy who runs that outfit over there.”

I am not alone in seeing a difference in President Biden. Mike
McCormick, who worked 15 years as a White House stenographer and
with Biden from 2011 to 2017, has said, “He’s lost a step and he
doesn’t seem to have the mental acuity he had four years ago. He
doesn’t have the energy, he doesn’t have the pace of his speaking.
He’s a different guy. He read that Democratic National Committee
speech verbatim — it’s not Joe Biden anymore.”

We have seen in recent interviews that Biden appears to be reading
directly from a teleprompter, including reciting written instruction
from his staff such as “END QUOTE” and “TOPLINE MESSAGE.” He
whispers.

Many of my physician friends who have cared for aging patients with
memory problems and dementia say it is not surprising that people
question Biden’s mental acuity. A neurosurgeon friend noted Biden's
two intracerebral bleeds and a 1988 surgery for brain aneurysms and
said "it takes a toll and can show up later.” You’d expect some
decline over a period of time, but coupled with changes in his gait,
with little normal arm motion, I am seeing a dramatic change from
when we had lunch together or even when he was vice president.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa- view/2021/08/15/joe-biden-mental-acuity-cause-concern-and-
action/5505152001/

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