When Gerald Ford stu.bled occasionally, people like Chevy Chase made a cottage industry out of questioning his competence. Drunken Hillary stubs a toe and the same people summon the ghost of Clara Barton.
It's not booze...it's Parkinson's Disease.Classic symptoms...including gait disorders which can lead to falls/accidents.
The media did a real number on Gerald Ford. I never knew he was a top college athlete (he was also a skier) and a true scholar (graduated from Yale Law School) until later years. The media made him out to be only a big, dumb lummox.