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By the way, there have also been no such family stories in the lives of the first couples in the United States: a 24-year-old girl from a suburb of Philadelphia married a senator whose wife and daughter died, and raised their two children from his first marriage as their own.
The circle of mourning and love at first sight
In 1987, Democrat Joe Biden first tried to run for president. At the time, he was even caught talking too much about himself to the media and soon had to withdraw his candidacy. The BBC assures that for this reason the long interview with the politician did not come to light.
On December 18, 1972, Mr. Biden, 30, who had just been elected to the Senate, sat in his office and participated in job interviews to select new members of the team. When the phone rang, the politician heard the chilling news. A police officer informed him that a truck had entered a car parked on the side of the road, where Biden’s first wife and their three children were sitting. That day, the family went to the stores to collect Christmas gifts.
His wife Neilia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi Christina were murdered. Both sons, Joseph Robinette Beue and Robert Hunter, suffered serious injuries.
Biden wanted to leave the Senate and politics in general after this brutal tragedy.
“Back then, I thought I needed to take my son, go to Australia and try to forget what happened,” Biden recalled.
The politician revealed that to forget at least a little, he had to “turn around”: “Here is the first night for one in the family bedroom, here is the loneliness of the first Easter, the first snow seen by one, the first travel by car”.
Biden did not leave politics or the Senate, he was discouraged by senior Democratic colleagues. In an interview with the BBC, he later added: and also tens of thousands of voters, sent their messages of support.
“A year goes by, more, you don’t forget anything, but over time you learn and you smile again. The pain doesn’t go away, it just stays in the past, “he said at the time.
In 1975, Biden flew to Pennsylvania for family lunch, and a girl stopped him at the arrival area with promotional brochures in her hands. Unexpectedly, they spoke. Later, Biden was driving a car with two brothers and the young man said: She was my acquaintance from school, do you want me to invite her?
Jill Jacobs was 24 at the time. Biden later admitted that it was love at first sight. Both for him and for her.
The difference in the state of restless society, age and children.
The future first lady of the United States grew up on the outskirts of Philadelphia; In the family, in addition to his, there were four other daughters. At first, Jill dreamed of working in the fashion industry, but she soon changed her mind: she decided that sales did not interest her.
When she was 19 (1970), Jill married a former football player and later a bar owner in Delaware. However, already in 1974, the couple divorced.
Mr. Jacobs loved literature very much, studied it at university and then began teaching at school.
Admittedly, he did not immediately respond to Mr. Biden’s offer of a “yes” meeting. “This is the difference between age (Biden is 8 years older) and status,” he recalled in an interview with Vogue. “I met the young men in jeans and he came to his first date sparingly in a sweater and loafers.”
Jill later agreed, and although there was no formal adoption procedure, she raised Joe’s child as her own.
In June 1977, Jill Jacobs and Joe Biden were married in New York.
The couple spent their honeymoon in Hungary, the “Iron Curtain” of the Cold War. In 1977, it was considered an extremely spicy trip.
In 1981, they had a daughter, Ashley.
Jill Biden was not ready to finish her teaching career. For the next thirteen years, she has been teaching English and literature to both students and children with developmental disabilities.
As early as 1987, during Biden’s brief pre-election campaign, he claimed that he would not quit his job if Joe were elected president. As early as 2000, Biden defended his Ph.D.
However, Jill not only preserved her personal development prospects, but also supported her husband’s professional development. She convinced Joe to run in the 2004 presidential election, when the United States was ruled by George W. Bush and the country plunged into the Iraq war. Biden was categorical before that war.
In 2008, Biden ran for Democratic presidential candidates, but fell behind Barack Obama, who later became president for two terms.
Biden became the first “second lady” in American history to continue working at her job at the time. He did not interrupt teaching but instead moved to Washington College and performed his political and social duties alongside his main occupation. He often corrected the work of his students on the way to some solemn gathering.
The first lady is working
In the spring of 2020, Jill Biden took a vacation in the middle of the school year to run her husband’s election campaign. She had never done that before.
The future first lady of the United States hosted pre-election rallies for her husband in her native Pennsylvania and Delaware, which she attended. Journalists point out that she is not as good a speaker as her husband, but she is well versed in people management, the BBC reports.
After her husband’s victory in the presidential election, Jill Biden declared almost immediately that, as first lady, she would continue to work at her favorite job full time. “I want people to value teachers, to know their contribution to the profession,” he explained in an interview with CBS.
The first lady of the United States has no clear legal obligations. They mostly attended solemn ceremonies and receptions, and participated in charity events. Jill Biden herself has been supporting veteran families for many years and runs a foundation that educates girls about breast cancer. None of the previous first ladies have worked “full time.” Only Eleanor Roosevelt wrote comments to the newspaper in support of the man’s political line.
In the American media, this decision by Jill Biden is already described as historic, claiming that in this way she will play a role that belongs to the 21st century. for the first ladies.
Not only that, he also keeps his promise, which he made publicly thirty years ago.
“Teaching is not what I do. That is what I am,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Teaching is not what I do. It's who I am.
I'll be giving my convention speech tonight from my former classroom.
Brandywine High School. Room 232. pic.twitter.com/NXx1EkqVGq
— Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden) August 18, 2020
Biden’s journey to the White House is long and bumpy, an unprecedented disciple who, in his youth, impressed voters with his sincerity and then suffered a tragic tragedy, after which he considered leaving politics for good. Even so, a woman made him change his mind.
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