President Joe Biden traveled to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Wednesday for his annual physical exam.
Concerns about the president’s age and health resurfaced earlier this month with the conclusion of the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. Special counsel Robert Hur opted not to charge the president in the matter but wrote in his report that Biden displayed a failing memory, a characterization heartily opposed by the White House.
Biden has submitted two physicals since entering office, and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters earlier in February that he planned to do so again before the election, though the president is not bound by law to disclose any information regarding his personal health. White House officials added Wednesday that they would publish a memo summarizing Biden’s 2024 physical, which lasted roughly two hours and 30 minutes, later in the day.
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White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor found Biden to be relatively healthy for a man of his age in both 2021 and 2023. Reporters had petitioned the White House to make O’Connor available to field questions about the president’s health, a request that Jean-Pierre would not commit to.
“He has always put forward, in the last two years, a detailed memo on the president’s, obviously, medical physical, and so I’m just going to leave it there,” she told reporters.
