How Joe Biden can copy Lyndon Johnson and quit

A bad week for the 81-year-old US president has sparked alarm about his fitness for another White House run.

James Politi

Feb 11, 2024 – 12.57pm

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Joe Biden’s fitness for the presidency was thrust to the centre of the 2024 White House race after Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents, issued a report on Thursday (Friday AEDT) citing troubling memory lapses Biden experienced while being interviewed during the probe last year.

The assessment of Biden’s mental confusion – which triggered an angry response from him at a hastily arranged press conference on Thursday night – overshadowed the report’s conclusion, which was that the US Justice Department would not issue criminal charges against the president.

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