To the Editor:
Re “Biden Reassures Governors of Health, however Concedes His Schedule Is Draining” (information article, July 5):
I’m gobsmacked. President Biden informed the Democratic governors that “he must get extra sleep and work fewer hours, together with curbing occasions after 8 p.m.” Is that presupposed to ease our minds?
Why was there no pushback from the governors? Does the president not see that his comment is totally disqualifying? Does he not perceive the calls for of the presidency after serving three and a half years in workplace? Does he actually anticipate the American public to simply settle for that at sure occasions of the day — crises be damned — the president wants a nap?
Why gained’t Mr. Biden do the suitable factor and withdraw his candidacy, and why gained’t the Democratic management demand that? If I felt that, regardless of the president’s plain bodily and cognitive decline, he had a transparent path to victory, it will be one factor. However he’s a protracted shot to win the presidency at finest.
I’d relatively roll the cube in order that we are able to discover a Democratic candidate who can prioritize the wants of the nation over the necessity to sleep.
Eric Graber
Annapolis, Md.
To the Editor:
Re “Advisers Scramble to Comprise Defections” (information article, July 4):
President Biden’s aides have scrambled to guarantee voters that he’s as much as the job. Which will certainly be an correct reply, however to the flawed query.
At this level within the election, the one related query will not be whether or not Mr. Biden can do the job, however whether or not, after his debate debacle, he can win the job. And everyone outdoors his household and internal circle is aware of that the reply to that one is “no.”
Paul Rosenthal
New York
To the Editor:
“Some in Room With Biden Say Lapses Are Rising” (entrance web page, July 3) enumerated situations that will be regular and never notably alarming for an 81-year-old man — if he weren’t the chief of the world’s most important democracy.
President Biden blames jet lag and an excessive amount of journey for his poor efficiency within the debate. Has he not learn the job description? We’d like a president who can assume on his ft in all eventualities. Being president is essentially the most tough job on the planet, and it ages everybody.
Mr. Biden has finished a exceptional job managing all of the competing and relentless points and emergencies that got here with the job, however he doesn’t seem able to persevering with at this crucial tempo for one more 4 years.
Mr. Biden’s refusal to step apart in favor of youthful, extra succesful contenders exhibits the type of vanity and egomania that all of us skilled beneath Donald Trump. It fuels the “similar on either side” that Republicans use to attempt to excuse unhealthy habits and it turns off the voters within the center — the voters who will determine this election and the way forward for our democracy.
It could not be an indication of weak point to step apart; it will be an indication of power and management. The type of management that George Washington exhibited when he selected to step away as our nation was simply starting. Now we the voters attraction to Mr. Biden to do the identical to be able to protect it.
Anita Embleton
Lafayette, Calif.
To the Editor:
Re “Forcing Biden Out Would Have Solely One Beneficiary: Trump,” by Charles M. Blow (column, July 4):
President Biden has had the simplest first 4 years of any president in my lifetime. I’ll always remember how grateful I used to be to the citizens when he gained. Nor will I overlook how grateful I’m to him for steering us to this place in historical past.
I cannot vote for him, nonetheless. His speedy deterioration is obvious to all. I can see solely a pending farce, not a presidency.
“To not fear. The president is backed by knowledgeable workers,” some say. I don’t vote for employees. I vote for the president. And this man is not match for the job. If that stand means Donald Trump, so be it.
Eric Anderson
Teaneck, N.J.
How C.E.O.s Really feel About Trump
To the Editor:
Re “I Know What America’s Main C.E.O.s Actually Consider Donald Trump,” by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld (Opinion visitor essay, nytimes.com, June 23):
Dr. Sonnenfeld seeks to reassure us that our enterprise leaders “are overwhelmed by worries about Mr. Trump,” citing such information factors as his personal conversations with C.E.O.s and the “frigid reception” that Mr. Trump obtained from them at a Enterprise Roundtable assembly.
Depend me amongst those that will not be reassured. Within the face of an existential risk to our democracy and the rule of regulation (and never by the way to their very own companies), these highly effective women and men have to do a lot, far more. As many have stated over the centuries, all that’s crucial for the triumph of evil is for good individuals to do nothing.
Bruce Kuhlik
Washington
A Trump Donor
To the Editor:
Re “A Trump Benefactor With $100 Million to Spare” (entrance web page, June 26):
Dr. Miriam Adelson is definitely entitled to her beliefs and is legally allowed to spend her billions as she sees match, however like different one-issue voters she is ignoring the larger, extra essential image: the ethical character of our nice nation.
Donald Trump is the personification of immorality, and Dr. Adelson is seemingly prepared to permit America to float into authoritarianism and chaos so long as she will get her method regarding Israel.
Invoice Gottdenker
Mountainside, N.J.
‘The Evil of Jew-Hatred’
To the Editor:
Re “My Son Is a Hostage. Evaluating Hamas to the Nazis Is Improper,” by Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Opinion visitor essay, June 24):
Professor Dekel-Chen misses the purpose. The parallel certainly fails if all that’s analyzed are the particulars of the Third Reich and the Hamas motion. However specializing in the timber right here obscures the ugly forest: antisemitism.
The evil of Jew-hatred is a shape-shifter. It might come from political entities on the suitable or on the left, from one faith or one other, from governments and from societal actions. And the ostensible causes for the hatred range wildly with time and place. However the goal is identical: the Jews.
Might the professor’s hostage son, and all these being held by this era’s Jew-haters, quickly have the ability to rejoin their households.
(Rabbi) Avi Shafran
New York
The author is the director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America.
Disinvite Netanyahu
To the Editor:
Re “Congress, Shut Your Doorways to Netanyahu,” by David Harel, Tamir Pardo, Talia Sasson, Ehud Barak, Aaron Ciechanover and David Grossman (Opinion visitor essay, June 26):
Whereas I agree that congressional leaders ought to disinvite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, I doubt that they are going to accomplish that.
Assuming that the speech nonetheless occurs, members of Congress ought to present their help for Israel the suitable method not by sitting within the chamber throughout Mr. Netanyahu’s handle, however by becoming a member of the protesters outdoors for Israeli democracy and for a hostage deal.
Simply make certain to affix the right group of demonstrators, those with blue and white flags.
Edo Steinberg
Beersheba, Israel
Lifesaving H.I.V. Medicine
To the Editor:
Re “New Drug Supplies Complete Safety From H.I.V. in Trial of Younger African Ladies” (information article, nytimes.com, June 21):
Thanks for Stephanie Nolen’s story, which so powerfully highlighted how a brand new H.I.V. medication, lenacapavir, requiring solely two injections per yr, might assist us attain the unreached and finish AIDS. As your story highlights, this hope will be realized provided that Gilead Sciences ensures entry for everybody who may gain advantage from lenacapavir.
That’s the reason I joined greater than 300 consultants and activists, together with individuals dwelling with H.I.V., to name on Gilead to license a generic model of lenacapavir to all low- and middle-income nations via the U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool, which has unparalleled expertise licensing generics to deal with well being crises.
It’s subsequently regarding that Gilead’s current assertion makes no point out of the Medicines Patent Pool and implies that solely “low- and lower-middle-income nations” can be included. Forty-one % of recent H.I.V. infections are in upper-middle-income nations, the place hundreds of thousands dwell in poverty. They can’t afford something like lenacapavir’s present $42,250 price ticket.
Gilead might want to embrace all middle-income nations and work with the Medicines Patent Pool for its entry technique for lenacapavir to succeed.
Winnie Byanyima
Geneva
The author is the manager director of the Joint United Nations Program on H.I.V./AIDS (UNAIDS).
