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<p>For Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-walks-a-tightrope-on-human-rights-with-israel-palestine-saudi-arabia-during-his-middle-east-trip">the past two months have been a diplomatic marathon</a>.</p>
<p>Although the president has recently endured questions suggesting that he is too old for the office he holds, what he has accomplished has very likely exceeded in intensity, duration, challenges, and miles traveled than anything we have seen from any of Biden’s recent predecessors—all younger men than he.</p>
<p>The president’s foreign policy blitz has come in the midst of numerous crises, both at home and abroad. Inflation, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/alitos-dobbs-opinion-overturning-roe-is-judicial-activism-at-its-most-self-deceptive">a right-wing activist Supreme Court</a>, and an <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-will-never-give-up-on-the-big-lie">opposition party in which many are still more inclined to disbelieve the results of the 2020 election</a> than to accept he is the legitimately elected President of the United States. Then there’s the intransigence of a senator in his own party—Joe Manchin—who stymies Biden’s agenda at every turn. Oh, and now <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-says-president-joe-biden-has-tested-positive-for-covid">the president has COVID</a>.</p>
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Although the president has recently endured questions suggesting that he is too old for the office he holds, what he has accomplished has very likely exceeded in intensity, duration, challenges, and miles traveled than anything we have seen from any of Biden’s recent predecessors—all younger men than he.
