White House Mystery

 

I well remember the final nudge that caused President Richard Nixon to resign. 

Senator Barry Goldwater (AZ), Senator Hugh Scott (PA), and Congressman John Rhodes (AZ) met with President Nixon and told him that he would not have sufficient support to resist impeachment.

Within a day, everyone knew that. There was no mystery. It was all over the newspapers.

Fast-forward to now. There are theories, but we do not have the specific details of what caused President Biden to shift, in a single day, from staying to leaving the presidential race.

If we had a press corps, at least a few of them might be curious enough to find how just what took place and how the attention suddenly drifted from cognitive decline to whether or not the President would run for re-election. I'd like to know the names of the key players.

Coupled with this is the lack of curiosity of the general public. There seems to be great indifference as to what happened and, even more importantly, just who is currently making the major decisions while the Vice President is on the campaign trail and the President is on the beach. I realize that presidents take vacations, but these seem more detached than usual.

We are surrounded by an unhealthy lack of curiosity.