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Flashback: Obama surprises VP Joe Biden with Presidential Medal of Freedom (Original Post) SouthernCal_Dem Nov 2020 OP
K & R Budi Nov 2020 #1
Probably my favorite moment in politics Jarqui Nov 2020 #2
Thanks for making me cry yuiyoshida Nov 2020 #3
Thanks for posting this. Ellipsis Nov 2020 #4
A thing of beauty sandensea Nov 2020 #5
I never get tired of watching this MustLoveBeagles Nov 2020 #6
I had to watch this again.. halobeam Nov 2020 #7
Makes me cry all over again! AwakeAtLast Nov 2020 #8

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
2. Probably my favorite moment in politics
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:38 PM
Nov 2020

Joe spoke off the cuff for 20 minutes ..... beautifully, from the heart.
Gave us tremendous insight into Obama's years as President.
And he reaffirmed to everyone what a great human being he is.

sandensea

(21,526 posts)
5. A thing of beauty
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 12:02 AM
Nov 2020

Friendships, it's said, are hard to find in politics - and downright rare among presidents and their vice presidents.

Reagan and Poppy Bush, for example, were famously estranged (something about Hinckley - but I digress).

They spoke to each other so seldom, that "Thursday lunches" had to be staged for the press to dispel that impression. They'd get up and leave the minute the press did.

The same was done with Truman and FDR - who was so upset the convention removed Wallace from the '44 ticket (a Dixiecrat demand), he'd hardly look at Truman for those brief three months he was VP.

Poppy Bush, in turn, loathed Quayle - whom he was forced to select to placate the hard right.

But between Obama and Biden, by all accounts there was real friendship as well as good working relationship - and from two people who couldn't be more different.

Obama, cool and reserved; Biden, frank and effusive.

Carter always described a similar friendship with Mondale.

It's important.

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