They began throwing stones.” Then he would awaken, “terribly shaken.”This is the troubled man who withdrew from the presidential race. Increasingly isolated, President Biden surely shared that agony when he made the decision to bow out of the 2024 presidential race. Perhaps, ultimately, he came to recall in assessing the race and his situation a fundamental principle of politics. “Politics is about tomorrow, not yesterday,” he told me in 2007. With the years since showing, he must have accepted that he is yesterday and chose to let the party move on.

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Persons: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, “, ‘ Coward, “ Johnson, ” Norman Mailer, Biden, ”