He claimed to be supportive of "busing children from bad schools to good schools" but opposed to "busing to balance schools racially." [305][306], During much of his second term, Biden was said to be preparing for a possible bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. [128][135] By late 2006, Biden's stance had shifted considerably, and he opposed the troop surge of 2007,[129][133] saying General David Petraeus was "dead, flat wrong" in believing the surge could work.
[204] Scranton became a flashpoint in the competition for swing-state Catholic voters between the Democratic campaign and liberal Catholic groups, who stressed that other social issues should be considered as much as or more than abortion, and many bishops and conservative Catholics, who maintained abortion was paramount. [443], Biden is an inductee of the Delaware Volunteer Firemen's Association Hall of Fame. On Nov. 7, 1972, Biden beat Boggs by a little more than 3,000 votes; it was the first of his seven successful bids for the Senate from Delaware, and it was his closest election ever. Biden had vowed not to "be a fence-sitter," but his position on busing was relatively murky. And his ability to understand himself and deal with other politicians has gotten much much better.
Does he mean it?
Biden led the efforts to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act, and oversaw the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. "[113], Biden was officially nominated for a second term as vice president on September 6 by voice vote at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kennedy.
[20] In the Bork hearings, he stated his opposition to Bork soon after the nomination, reversing his approval in an interview of a hypothetical Bork nomination he had made the previous year and angering conservatives who thought he could not conduct the hearings fairly. [257], In October 2010, Biden said Obama had asked him to remain as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election,[247] but with Obama's popularity on the decline, White House chief of staff William M. Daley conducted some secret polling and focus group research in late 2011 on the idea of replacing Biden on the ticket with Hillary Clinton. Caitlin Caruso said Biden placed his hand on her thigh, and D.J. Covering Biden's announcement, The Morning News of Wilmington vaguely summarized his positions: Biden says "he is for the poor," "for the elderly," "for law and order, but also for justice." Biden's compromise solution between his white constituents and African-American leaders was to introduce legislation to outlaw the court's power to enforce certain types of busing, while allowing it to end segregation school districts had deliberately imposed.
[9]:572–573 In September 2007, a non-binding resolution endorsing such a scheme passed the Senate,[142] but the idea was unfamiliar, had no political constituency, and failed to gain traction. [281][282] Biden discussed federal guidelines on sexual assault on university campuses while giving a speech at the University of New Hampshire. [159][160][161] Biden said he was listed as the second-poorest member in Congress and was not proud of the distinction, but attributed it to having been elected early in his career. "[329] On June 17, 2017, Biden predicted the "state the nation is today will not be sustained by the American people" while speaking at a Florida Democratic Party fundraiser in Hollywood. [264] Biden apologized to Obama in private for having spoken out,[262][265] while Obama acknowledged publicly it had been done from the heart. "[346], In March 2019, Biden condemned Brunei's new LGBT death penalty law, tweeting: "Stoning people to death for homosexuality or adultery is appalling and immoral. 2 Keeps On Punching", "Senate Struggles to Pay Attention to the Remapping of NATO", "Kerry to opt for the senator who copied Kinnock", "Biden says he wouldn't be secretary of state", "Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards", "Biden's Comments Ruffle Feathers, Senator Forced To Explain His Remarks About Indian-Americans", "Indian-American activist defends Sen. Biden", "Obama and Biden's Relationship Looks Rosy.
[149], In 1978, when Biden was seeking reelection to the Senate, Wilmington's federally mandated cross-district busing plan generated much turmoil.
Biden announced his senatorial bid five days later.
[74] In 2013, Section 3 of DOMA was ruled unconstitutional and partially struck down in United States v. Windsor. Biden was reelected six times to the U.S. Senate and was the fourth-most senior senator when he resigned after winning the vice presidency alongside Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. In a fiery interview, Biden declared: "I don't feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather.
[168][208] During one week in September 2008, for instance, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Biden was included in only five percent of coverage of the race, far less than the other three candidates on the tickets received.
[136], Biden was a strong supporter of the 2001 war in Afghanistan, saying, "Whatever it takes, we should do it. Cruel. [82] Civil rights lawyer and NAACP Legal Defense Fund director Jack Greenberg criticized Biden's support for the bill, saying it "heave[d] a brick through the window of school integration", with Biden's hand on the brick. [237][256] He took the lead in notifying Congressional leaders of the successful outcome. On December 8, 2015, Biden spoke in Ukraine's parliament in Kyiv[296][297] in one of his many visits to set U.S. aid and policy stance on Ukraine. [133] The engagement led to a successful NATO peacekeeping effort.
[18] Academically, he was a poor student but was considered a natural leader among the students and elected class president during his junior and senior years,[9]:40–41[22]:99 and graduated in 1961. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now. [307][309][310], As of September 11, 2015[update], Biden was still uncertain whether to run. They gave testimony grossly misrepresenting the intent, history of and status of Saddam and his Sunni government, which was an openly avowed enemy of al-Qaida, and touting Iraq's fictional possession of weapons of mass destruction.
[39] Corporate law, however, did not appeal to him, and criminal law did not pay well. "I paid millions of dollars in taxes. [20] In April 2019, he called Hill to express regret over how he treated her; after the conversation, Hill said she remained deeply unsatisfied. There was no handshake as the two men took the stage and while this was due to Covid-19 restrictions, the absence of the traditional greeting symbolized the bitterness engulfing the country in the final countdown to November 3. [20][95] Biden was soon found to have lifted passages from a 1967 speech by Robert F. Kennedy earlier that year (for which his aides took the blame) and a short phrase from the 1961 inaugural address of John F. Kennedy and to have done the same with a 1976 passage from Hubert H. Humphrey two years earlier. [376], With the suspension of Sanders's campaign on April 8, 2020, Biden became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for the presidential election. [9]:96 Biden considered resigning to care for them,[20] but Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield persuaded him not to. [54] They met on a blind date arranged by Biden's brother, although Biden had already noticed a photograph of her in an advertisement for a park in Wilmington. In 2018, McCain died at the age of 81 of the same kind of cancer Beau Biden died of. "[389] Biden's spokesman said Biden did not recall the behavior described. [327], While attending the launch of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement on March 30, 2017, a student asked Biden what "piece of advice" he would give Trump. Less than two years later, 20 years to the week after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Senate erupted in fierce debate over busing. [277][278][279], Biden's Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized again in 2013. [140][168] Biden attacked McCain heavily despite a long-standing personal friendship. [302], Biden never cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, making him the longest-serving vice president with this distinction. In fact, Biden was so young that at age 29, he was constitutionally ineligible for the seat during the entirety of his campaign (he turned 30 two weeks after the election). [42] He did receive some help from the AFL–CIO and Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell.
[146], In 2007, Biden requested and gained $67 million worth of projects for his constituents through congressional earmarks. Biden was accused of withholding $1 billion in aid from Ukraine in this effort. [300] But in March 2016, Biden spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., saying, "We're all united by our unyielding—I mean literally unyielding—commitment to the survival, the security, and the success of the Jewish State of Israel. This is outrageous. Post-Evans, Biden's position on busing was no longer muddled. (It's revealing that when juxtaposed, the opposite of law and order is not mayhem or lawlessness, but justice.). [452], "Biden" redirects here. [239], In late April 2009, Biden's off-message response to a question during the beginning of the swine flu outbreak (that he would advise family members against traveling on airplanes or subways) led to a swift retraction by the White House. [nb 5] In emotional farewell remarks on the Senate floor, where he had spent most of his adult life, Biden said, "Every good thing I have seen happen here, every bold step taken in the 36-plus years I have been here, came not from the application of pressure by interest groups, but through the maturation of personal relationships.
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