Page 8 - Seniors Today - February Issue

President Biden with his wife Jill, who holds a PhD in education and teaches at the community college in Northern Virginia
his other son, is an attorney who manages a
private equity firm in Washington DC and
is the Chairman of World Food Program
USA. Ashley, his daughter, is Director of
the Delaware Center for Justice. He has six
grandchildren: Natalie Biden, Finnegan
Biden, Maisy Biden, Robert Biden II, Naomi
Biden, Beau Biden Jr. A family man to the
core, he urges his staff not to prioritise
work over family obligations, saying if
he found out that staffers were working
instead of attending a family event, it would
“disappoint [him] greatly”. [4]
President Biden has cultivated a profile
as Uncle Joe, the aviator-wearing charmer
known for the occasional verbal gaffe
notwithstanding his sharp knowledge of
foreign affairs, his advocacy for victims of
sexual assault, and his more recent “cancer
moonshot” effort to accelerate a cure for
Covid-19. Biden is what you would call an
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‘Average Joe’, one who is most comfortable
around his two German Shepherds Champ
and Major, friends and family. He overcame
a childhood stutter, was a high school
football star and is a car enthusiast; he still
drives the 1967 Corvette Stingray gifted
to him by his father. His favourite movie
is ‘Chariots of Fire’ and he embodies the
message of putting personal fame and
glory behind principles. And, best of
[5]
all, something that both he and I have in
common is that we do not drink or smoke,
but we love ice cream. It is a known fact that
$10,000 was spent during his campaign on
ice cream alone, a change from the deviant
pleasures of some past politicians.
On the lighter side, Joe is famously known
for his gaffes. Once at the White House
signing ceremony for Obama’s landmark
healthcare bill in 2010, Biden leaned in to
embrace Obama and whispered directly into