President Joe Biden’s efforts to escape party pressure on him to quit his reelection campaign are certainly worthy of the attention the media is giving it, though it’s not unprecedented in modern history.

Former President Jimmy Carter faced a potentially fatal political challenge from the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson did bow out amid the Vietnam War fiasco.

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