This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, July 26,

2024. I'm Caleb Brown.

The health of a US president is a critical matter

for faithful execution of the laws to say nothing of repelling attacks

on the US. And there is sadly no shortage of presidential health scandals in the past and the present.

In the wake of President Biden's decision to stand down in his party's effort to keep the White House in their control,

it is Walter Olson discusses presidential health and offers a few ideas for giving Americans and Congress greater assurance

that the president is up to the task.

Walter, for all of the memes and jokes at the expense of Joseph Robinette Biden, the current president of the United

States, the notion of presidential infirmity, frankly, is no small matter.

This is one of the most important and powerful offices on the planet,

if not the most powerful office on the planet, if not the most powerful office on the planet.

And so in the wake of his decision to depart,

there are a lot of things that I feel like you might want to remind our listeners of with

respect to presidential health and public information about the president's

health if you don't mind.

Those are two depressing subjects because a lot of presidents have had very serious health

infirmities and the state of public information was often very bad.

It was covered up in different ways and you have to wonder after more than a century of this, and that's just the cases I could reel off.

What if anything has been learned? Where is the constituency for letting us know how a president is doing health was?

And just by analogy, the US government is not just the biggest executive operation any of us will ever get near.

And if you compare it with a very large corporation,

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