He hoped to inspire a new generation as John Kennedy had inspired his. In the middle of the Bork hearings came a climactic moment for Biden, who in 1987 started running for president. Once the story was out though, Hill and then Thomas testified to fascinated television audiences Thomas was confirmed, over Biden’s opposition. Biden was bitterly criticized for covering up this information, but he had shared it with committee members, who agreed that Hill’s initial unwillingness to testify publicly meant that any reference to it would be unfair to Thomas. The 1991 hearings on Clarence Thomas exploded when someone leaked charges of sexual harassment by Anita Hill against the nominee. In his 1987 hearings, nominee Robert Bork set a high standard for intellectual seriousness, but some of his opponents used his candor to vote against him, from which Biden’s attempts to construct an honestly based, anti-Bork rationale proved politically indistinguishable no other nominee since has testified so candidly. As chairman, Biden presided over the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings in history. The issues that arise here-abortion, flagburning, capital punishment, crime control-cut deeply, and for years the cultural liberals in the Democratic Party differed sharply on most of them from the constituents Biden saw in Delaware every day. For many years he did much of his most visible work on the Judiciary Committee, which he chaired from 1987-95 and served as ranking Democrat on from 1981-97. In the Senate, Biden has a moderate-to-liberal voting record. He remains a familiar figure in, and one familiar with, his constituency (and to Amtrak employees). He thought about resigning, but was persuaded to serve, and began his practice, kept to this day, of commuting from his home near Wilmington on Amtrak, 80 minutes to and from Washington every day. A month later his wife and daughter were killed in an auto accident his two young sons were injured. In 1972 he ran for the Senate against a popular incumbent who seemed ready to retire, while this young challenger had energy, an attractive extended family and an ability to connect with voters’ emotions. After school he moved back to the Wilmington suburbs, practiced law, and in 1970, at 27, was elected to the New Castle County Council. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School he married and started a family while still in law school. As a teenager he had a stutter, but taught himself to deliver a speech to his whole school.
He thanked the lieutenant governor, who he said "covers her in every way, both in terms of physically, and mentally, and every other way.Joseph Biden, Delaware’s longest-serving senator, was first elected in 1972, at age 29 (he reached the constitutional age of 30 by the time he took office) he has spent most of his life as a senator.īiden grew up in the suburbs of Wilmington in a middle-class home his father was a car salesman and one grandfather was a state senator in Pennsylvania. He is also well known for his propensity to make verbal gaffes.Īnxiety about what Biden might say if he takes questions from the media drives some in the White House to mute him or turn off his public appearances altogether, Politico reported last month, citing White House officials.Įarlier this month, Biden made a bizarre gaffe after introducing Michigan Gov. At the time, Biden was senator-elect in Delaware.Īfter decades in the Senate, he served as President Barack Obama's vice president from 2009 to 2017.īiden, 78, does have a well-documented history of using Amtrak between Washington and his home in Wilmington, Delaware, during his time in the Senate and White House as vice president.
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Update your settings here to see it.īIDEN TWISTED INSIDE OUT AS HE CLAIMS PEOPLE DON'T SAY 'TORNADO' ANYMOREīiden's first wife, Neilia, and their infant daughter Naomi died in a 1972 car crash. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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