To the editor: Columnist Jonah Goldberg discusses President Biden’s well being with none licensed medical experience. He solely has a political viewpoint to advertise (“Historical past alone ought to have made extra reporters skeptical about Biden’s well being,” Might 20).
Conversely, that very same day The Instances revealed an excellent rationalization of Biden’s sickness and therapy choices, which quotes respected medical specialists (“6 docs on Biden’s most cancers analysis, the way it could have arisen and his therapy choices,” Might 20). A kind of is Dr. Sunil Patel, a urologic oncologist on the Johns Hopkins College of Medication. After an intensive rationalization of Biden’s situation, he says, “I don’t assume anybody can blame anybody by way of was this caught too late or something like that. This occurs not too occasionally.” The remainder of the article helps that evaluation.
Peggy Jo Abraham, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Sure, we needs to be paying nearer consideration to the well being of our growing older representatives. Clearly, Biden’s well being was failing, as his efficiency within the debate confirmed.
However, extra to the purpose, we want strictly enforced time period limits for all people who find themselves elected to workplace. The founding fathers by no means meant for elective workplace to be a lifetime occupation. You have been presupposed to “serve your nation” after which return to personal life, no matter that is likely to be. Now, senators and representatives seemingly do no matter they need to with a view to stay in workplace.
To implement and preserve time period limits would require the individuals affected by the laws to really vote for one thing that would take away their lofted positions. Regrettably, this is able to be unlikely to ever occur.
Growing older has no dependable timetable. I converse from expertise about that. However all individuals accountable for serving the residents of our nation needs to be involved with the way forward for our nation, not the way forward for their livelihood. Time period limits could be a serious step in the fitting path.
Peter Marquard, Northridge
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To the editor: Having learn a collection of articles within the Los Angeles Instances and elsewhere on the deliberate underplaying or precise hiding of presidents’ diseases, together with such presidents as Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, I’ve heard a lot much less about Ronald Reagan’s psychological decline in his final years (“It’s not simply Biden. There’s a historical past of presidential well being cover-ups,” Might 21). The Teflon appears to nonetheless be working.
The reflections on presidential well being situations appear to me to be primarily centered on Democratic presidents. Presumably only a coincidence? It appears a whole lot of the protection is just too little, too late and considerably a monetary boon to Jake Tapper’s e-book. A pity that our present president has traditionally been much less clear about his personal well being.
George Corey, Pasadena
