`The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama."
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🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How did Barack Obama and Joe Biden meet? What did they think of each other? Was there’s really a bromance? And how did these two very different men form a very successful partnership for eight years in the White House. What did Barack Obama think of Biden’s chances in 2020? What is their relationship today? All those questions and more are answered in the new book, "The Long Alliance. The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama" by New York Magazine National Correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti. You probably know Gabe from his many appearances on the Bill Press Reporters’ Roundtable. Bill highly recommends the book and it can be purchased here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome to this latest episode of the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:12.3 | You know what, it comes to politics, Joe Biden and Barack Obama could not be more different. |
| 0:18.2 | Biden goes with his gut. Obama leads with his mind. Biden loves to have a drink |
| 0:23.7 | with members of Congress. Obama despises it. Biden would work the rope line until there's nobody |
| 0:29.9 | left but him. Obama can't wait to jump in his limousine and get out of there. And yet somehow they |
| 0:36.8 | formed a partnership, a close |
| 0:38.7 | working relationship, but not a bromance, a partnership that's proved to be perhaps the most |
| 0:44.7 | effective relationship between a president and a vice president in history. How'd they do it? |
| 0:50.2 | And what's the nature of their relationship today now that Joe Biden's in the driver's seat? |
| 0:56.4 | Gabriel de Benedetti, National Political Correspondent for New York Magazine, whom you know as one of our |
| 1:01.7 | roundtable regulars, spent the last year researching the Obama-Biden Partnership and lays it all out |
| 1:08.8 | in his new book, The Long Alliance, the Imperfect Union of Joe Biden |
| 1:14.0 | and Barack Obama. Gabe to Benedetti, congratulations on the new book. And welcome back to the |
| 1:20.4 | Bill Presspot, which you're a regular guest. Anyhow, Gabe. Yeah, it's great to be in this |
| 1:26.0 | version of the Bill Presspot. And thank you very much. So the new book, The Long Yeah, it's great to be in this version of the bill press pot, and thank you very much. |
| 1:28.1 | So the new book, The Long Alliance, The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, wonderful book. I enjoyed every word of it. I think you did a great job detailing their relationship and explaining it. |
| 1:45.8 | And so, Gabe, here's the deal. |
| 1:47.7 | I finished the book, and this is last week. |
| 1:51.7 | I pick up the Washington Post the next morning. |
| 1:55.2 | It happens to be Wednesday, September 7. |
| 1:57.9 | The morning, the Obamas are coming back to the White House for the unveiling of their |
| 2:03.2 | official presidential and first lady portraits at the White House, which is, of course, going to be a |
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