It was 1988, and he'd approached President Ronald Reagan in the Cabinet room at the White House.
People scoffed at the glowing hourlong media conference that President Donald Trump's White House doctor gave about his health.
Reagan publicly announced he had Alzheimer's disease five years after he left the White House.
Francis Shen, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics, would like to see information about political leaders' cognitive health made public.
Cognitive health should be no different, he said, because it also might affect the way presidents and members of Congress make important decisions.