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    Doyle McManus: Is Joe Biden fatally stubborn — or virtuously tenacious?

    by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Nov 21, 2022 3 minutes
    President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference a day after the midterm elections, from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 9, 2022.

    Sunday was Joe Biden's 80th birthday. Our first octogenarian president is two years older than Ronald Reagan was when his presidency ended in 1989.

    Biden is still fit and energetic, but he's also showing his age. His hair is thinner, his gait stiffer, his speech a little more garbled than when he arrived in the White House almost two years ago.

    One thing hasn't changed: He's famously stubborn.

    And now that he's 80, it's probably fair to describe him as a stubborn old man.

    Ask anyone who's worked for Biden, and

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