No offense, E, but that's pretty ridiculous.
You don't think the president should be mentally participative when on the phone conducting foreign policy?
You don't think he can get blown and think at the same time? You're a history buff ... you must know the stories about POTUS' being drunk on the job or on pain killers and things of that nature.
Would it be worse in your eyes for a POTUS to get blown on the phone in the Oval Office than it would be for a POTUS to lie saying he was going one place only to
leave the country to have a week in the sack with his foreign mistress?
I know which of the evils I think is lesser.