The President was not well.
And the First Lady and his senior staff “went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the extent of the president’s disability. For over four months (the President) remained in seclusion, and the government all but ran itself.”
No, the President of whom this was written was not Joe Biden. It was Woodrow Wilson, post-World War One. Wilson had suffered a stroke and, surprise surprise, was in bad shape. Said his press secretary in his diary in 1920:
He has been ill since last October, and he cannot know what is going on. He sees almost nobody and hears almost no direct news…Was there ever such a situation in our history!
So records Wilson biographer Christopher Cox (a former California Congressman and Reagan staffer) in his book Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn.
What is notable is the fact that the media of the day was…
