The first televised presidential news conference in the history of the United States was back in 1955 when Dwight Eisenhower was president.

Flash forward to today, with President Biden addressed reporters at the NATO summit in Washington ... in what could be the most consequential news conference for ANY president in modern U.S. history.

With so many doubts about his mental and physical fitness, President Biden's every word will be heavily scrutinized ... his every move analyzed.  The future of his reelection campaign could take off ... or crash land ... depending on the president's performance right now.  So how did he do?

JEFF TIMMER is campaign director for the Lincoln Project; before that, he was executive director of the Michigan Republican Party

CHRISTINA BELLANTONI is a professor of journalism and director of the USC Annenberg’s Media Center

TONY SMITH is a professor of political science and law at UC Irvine; he's also Editor-in-Chief of Political Research Quarterly