My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States,

I could be, I could be vice president.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States.

It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.

We will be back in some form.

We are still deeply divided.

Public health experts warned this was coming, unless more was done, and here we are now.

Are you proud of what happened here today?

Absolutely.

Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?

Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,

dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this

fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going

to be the American century because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.

That is the history of the journey of America.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of an Irishman in America.

A very unusual thing this week where Marion McKeown is not

available to record our usual US update. As you can see, we've done something a little bit different.

We've gone back deep, deep into the vault, into the archive from three years ago, the first

conversation I ever had with Marion herself, an interview about the woman who has provided

us with all of this information and entertainment over the last two years. She is an extraordinary

woman who graduated from DCU in case you don't know.

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