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December 18, 1972 Valerie biden he was in a congressional Washington office with his brother going through stacks of resumes. Joe had just won against all odds, at the age of thirty, the race for a senatorial seat in Delaware, becoming overnight the young promise of the Democratic Party. They all wanted to work with him. I got a call from Jimmy (the last of the four Biden brothers) – says Valerie -. He said, “Go home immediately, there has been an accident.”
A devastating duel
The car of the Biden’s wife, Neilia, who had gone out to buy a Christmas tree with her three children, the baby Naomi, one year, Prince, three and Hunter, two – he had been hit by a truck: only Beau and Hunter had survived. Valerie — Val, her parents call her — had always been with her older brother, for example, cheering him on as he practiced reciting Yeats’s poems in the mirror to overcome his stuttering. It seemed natural to settle down with him with her husband and help him raise the children. We were already a close-knit family, according to Beau Biden, who then tragically died of cancer at 46 in 2015, we were even closer. In large part it was due to my aunt.
Joe and Jill: I asked him five times to marry me
In 1976, Joe’s life changed again. Accepting a blind date arranged for him by his other brother Biden, Frank, knocked on the door Jill Jacobs, father of Italian origin, nine years his junior, already married and divorced, in the last year of university. I dated guys in jeans, clogs and T-shirts, he showed up in a sports jacket and loafers and I thought: it will never work, Jill told Vogue in 2010. But it worked right away. It brought me back to life. It made me start to think that my family could be whole again, Biden says of her. Had to by ask him five times to marry her, before the coveted s: Meanwhile he had met the children, he was crazy about them. They had already lost their mother, they couldn’t lose another. He had to be 100 percent sure.
Husband’s shield
The wedding took place on June 17, 1977 with Beau and Hunter at the altar with the bride and groom. In 1981 he was born Ashley and Jill, who had also completed her Ph.D., left teaching for two and a half years. He never stopped after that hiatus, not even when Biden was elected vice president. Marathon lover, smiling, joking, a shield for her husband. Literally, as in the video, he circulated a lot on the network, in which he is seen distancing him from journalists, making sure that he respects social distancing; or like when, with Valerie, with an incredible shot he approached two women who were protesting against him at a rally in Los Angeles. But Jill never had an official role In his field.
Valerie, the mastermind behind all of her brother’s campaigns
Unlike Valerie, who handled (almost) all of them, including the unfortunate one in 1988, who ended badly on plagiarism charges (Biden had copied excerpts from speeches by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock). In hindsight, I think it was a blessing because if he had stayed in the race he probably would have died – he said referring to double aneurysm involving Biden this year -. He would have been ill in Iowa and could not have had the excellent care he had in Washington. While he recovered, Jill was adamant in protecting him by banning him from work and phone calls, including two from then-President Ronald Reagan. Biden will try again to run for president in 2008, but he will find one on his way. Barack Obama. The same Obama who then elected him as a deputy and pulled the sprint in the last days of this 2020 campaign. A campaign that for the first time Valerie was not to lead. At least not officially, because she is always there.
Where is Val? Asks President 46, lost when he does not see her. As a protective sister, Valerie was unconvinced of Kamala’s choice, still offended by how the senator had attacked Joe in the Democratic primary. It took a three-person lunch to close the deal. He always traveled with the candidate, was in the room when he prepared for debates, approved his commercials, covered all speeches. Someone says he can complete my sentences – says Biden – The truth is that he wrote my best sentences. Not only did he believe in me, he helped me believe in myself. Until the White House, the dream of a lifetime.
November 7, 2020 (change November 7, 2020 | 17:59)
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