‘Presidential’: The story of Joe Biden

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🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We really thought we knew everything there is to know about Joe Biden. … But then we heard this episode of “Presidential” with Lillian Cunningham and the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, and we learned so much that we wanted to share it with you here.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:05.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:07.0	It's Wednesday, December 23rd.
0:14.7	Up until this election, I really thought that I had heard all the stories about Joe Biden.
0:20.7	The president-elect has been in public life for decades.
0:23.3	He's been in politics for literally 50 years.
0:26.1	We've talked about him so extensively during the campaign and this podcast, so I thought
0:31.4	I had a pretty good grasp on his life.
0:34.4	But then I listened to this episode of the podcast presidential, hosted by my colleague,
0:38.4	Lilian Cunningham.
0:39.4	And I realized that there was so much that I didn't know.
0:43.1	Insights about what shaped Biden in his childhood, what formed his view of the world, and what
0:48.5	kind of president he's likely to be.
0:51.1	That's why I wanted to share that episode with you today.
0:53.5	My fellow Americans, I sought this office to restore the sole America.
1:03.7	It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again,
1:10.4	listen to each other again.
1:12.7	And to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.
1:18.0	They are not our enemies.
1:19.4	They are Americans.
1:20.4	When Joe Biden was a young man, he was asked once what he intended to do with his life.
1:37.1	His answer, I plan to be president of the United States.
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