You're listening to presidential profiles on the BBC World Service, this is James Nachty.

In this series we've explored the lives and politics of President Donald Trump and Vice President elect Kamala Harris.

Today we turn to the 46 President of the United States, Joe Biden.

We've won with the most votes ever cast a presidential ticket in the history of the nation.

Joe Biden wins the 2020 election and declares the Trump era over.

Tonight we're seeing all over this nation all cities and all parts of the country.

An outpouring of joy of hope, renewed faith and tomorrow bring a better day.

But the most unorthodox president we've known was making sure it would be a chaotic transition,

claiming election fraud that he couldn't prove.

There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened

where they could take it away from all of us.

This was a fraudulent election.

His supporters raided Capitol Hill,

Chaos at the heart of government,

in a country gripped by a pandemic racial unrest and political fever for the incoming president a threatening landscape

Like so many other Americans I am generally shocked and saddened at our nation so long the

beacon of light and hope for democracy has come to such a dark moment.

So Biden's presidency opens in pain. His first task is to bring relief. Then he must write his own White House story. His begins deep in the Cold War and the arrival of John F. Kennedy in 1961.

In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. But it was an exhilarating time to be a young American.

And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your country.

James Fallows of the Atlantic magazine sees Biden shaped by those youthful years.

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