Joe Biden

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Joe Biden (2021)
Signature of Joe Biden, 2010

Joseph "Joe" Robinette Biden, Jr. ( pronunciation : [ d͡ʒoʊ̯zəf ˌɹɑbɪnɛt baɪ̯dən ] *  20th November 1942 in Scranton , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party , and since 20 January 2021, the 46th  president of the United States . From 1973 to 2009 he belonged as a representative of the State of Delaware of the United States Senate on. From 2009 to 2017 he was the 47th during Barack Obama's tenure . Vice President of the United States .

Biden studied history and law and practiced as a lawyer prior to his political career . He lost his first wife, Neilia, and several of his children to an accident and illness. In 1972, when he was 29 years old, he was elected to the national Senate. There he worked towards the tightening of criminal law and made a name for himself as a foreign politician and as a Catholic representative of the political center. In 1988 and 2008 he applied unsuccessfully for nomination as a democratic presidential candidate. He was elected Vice President alongside Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

In 2020, Biden prevailed against strong internal party competition, especially from the left wing of the party, as a presidential candidate for the Democrats and challenger Donald Trump . In the November 3, 2020 election , Biden beat Trump with 51.3% of the vote and 306 against 232 voters . In January 2021, he took office against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters .

Family, education and work

The son of Joseph "Joe" Robinette Biden, Sr . (1915–2002) and Catherine Eugenia “Jean” Finnegan (1917–2010) grew up with two brothers, James Brian and Francis W. Biden, and a sister, Valerie (Biden) Owens. Biden's family is Roman Catholic and Irish-American . When he was ten years old, his family moved to Claymont , Delaware , where he grew up in suburban New Castle County . Biden's father worked as a car dealer. In 1961, Biden graduated from the Roman Catholic Archmere Academy at Claymont , and in 1965 graduated from the University of Delaware at Newark , majoring in history and political science. He received an overall grade of "C" and was 506th out of 688 students. He received the Juris Doctor in 1968 from the College of Law at Syracuse University . He was 76th out of a class of 85 participants. From 1969 he worked as a lawyer in Wilmington (Delaware) . From 1991 he taught constitutional law at the Widener University School of Law .

On August 27, 1966 married his college Biden love Neilia Hunter in Skaneateles ( Onondaga County ). The marriage resulted in three children: Joseph Robinette III (called "Beau", 1969–2015), Robert Hunter (* 1970) and Naomi Christina (1971–1972). On December 18, 1972, Neilia and Naomi were killed in a traffic accident, the two sons survived injured. Biden took his oath for the US Senate in January 1973 at their sickbed. On June 17, 1977, Biden married in New York City Jill Tracy Jacobs , with whom he has the daughter Ashley (* 1981). On May 30, 2015, his son Beau died of a brain tumor . Biden has seven grandchildren.

Political career up to the presidency

US Senator for Delaware (1973-2009)

Senator Biden (left) with his colleague Frank Church and the Egyptian President Anwar as-Sadat (1979)

Biden became politically active for the first time in the years 1968 to 1969, as the law firms in which he worked were each run by active local politicians. Biden attributes his registration as an independent to the fact that he disliked both Republican President Richard Nixon and Democratic Governor Charles L. Terry - the latter had patrolled the National Guard after racism in Wilmington and was known as "The Great Divider". Although Biden himself was not involved in the civil rights movement, he repeatedly cited it as a trigger for his politicization.

Biden won his first political mandate when he was elected to the New Castle County Council in November 1970 . In the 1972 election to the US Senate , he ran against Cale Boggs , who had an established profile as a former governor of Delaware and long-time Republican representative of the state. As one of the youngest ever, he won at the age of 29 and represented the state of Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 until he took up the vice presidency in 2009 . He won six re-elections. As a daily train driver , he represented Amtrak's interests in the Senate and saw himself as a lobbyist for Dover US Airforce Base and the Delaware chicken processing industry . As a speaker he is known for his eloquent and emotional, often long speeches. For many years he sat on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations . In the latter he was most recently chairman and thus one of the most prominent foreign politicians of the congress .

In the Justice Committee, Biden was chairman from 1987 to 1995 and from 1981 to 1987 and from 1995 to 1997 as a ranking minority member . During his tenure as chairman, the highly controversial negotiations on the nominations of the conservative Supreme Court judges Robert Bork (1987, rejected by the Senate) and Clarence Thomas (1991) fell.

Biden was instrumental in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (1994), which restricted gun ownership , extended the death penalty and investigative powers to the federal level for a number of crimes such as certain immigration crimes, hate and gang crime, and sex crimes . Part of the law was the Violence Against Women Act , which expanded the rights of women. He was also the author of the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act ( RAVE Act ) in 2003 , which drew criticism from the electronic music scene due to its extensive measures .

As chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus , Biden worked on anti-drug laws in the United States. As a member of the committee, Biden campaigned for tightened measures against flunitrazepam , MDMA (ecstasy), ketamine and anabolic steroids .

In foreign affairs, Biden was involved in the fight against terrorism and weapons of mass destruction and specialized in Europe after the Cold War , the Middle East and Southeast Asia . Shortly after the collapse of Yugoslavia, he advocated an active and, if necessary, violent US foreign policy in the Balkans . He called Slobodan Milošević a war criminal early on and campaigned to lift the arms embargo against the Serbs' opponents and to train Bosnian Muslims militarily. His advocacy of NATO air missions was one of the key elements in convincing Bill Clinton of this option.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks , Biden supported US President George W. Bush and called for more ground troops in the war in Afghanistan . In the Senate, he approved the resolution on the Iraq war , believing that Saddam Hussein must be overthrown, but today regrets that decision, as do other leading Democrats.

Presidential candidate (1988 and 2008)

Biden with Obama in Springfield , Illinois after his running mate performance , August 2008

In the 1988 presidential election , Biden declared his candidacy in June 1987, but dropped out of the race after just six weeks after plagiarism allegations were made against him. He had copied a speech by UK Labor leader Neil Kinnock , which included personal life details that were true in Kinnock's case but not with Biden. In 2004 he was due to his experience as a possible foreign minister or vice president of the (defeated) Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry .

For the 2008 presidential election , Biden has been a potential Democratic candidate since late 2004 and announced on January 7, 2007 that he would apply. Biden formally entered the race at the end of January. After winning just under a percent of the vote in the first vote in the Democratic primary process , the caucus in the state of Iowa , Biden announced in January 2008 that he was leaving the running for the presidency.

Vice President of the United States (2009-2017)

Election 2008 and first term

Biden at his swearing-in as Vice President (January 20, 2009)

On August 23, 2008, Obama named Biden his candidate for the vice presidency . After his retirement from the presidential candidacy, Biden had indicated that he would not actively seek running for the running of the presidency, but would accept it if it was offered to him. The politically experienced Biden was supposed to compensate for Barack Obama's lack of experience in the election campaign, particularly in matters of foreign policy. Biden was also considered to be respected among white workers, which should bring more votes to the democratic ticket. On November 4, 2008, Obama and Biden emerged victorious from the presidential election . They won a majority in 28 states and Washington, DC , which earned 365 votes in Electoral College , while the Republican team of John McCain and Sarah Palin won 22 states and received just 173 votes.

Biden in the Oval Office with President Obama after passing the Budget Control Act, July 2011

Biden was sworn in as Vice President in a grand ceremony outside the Capitol in Washington on January 20, 2009 , minutes before Barack Obama took the oath of president. He replaced George W. Bush's Vice President Dick Cheney . While his predecessor had exercised the office of vice president with great vigor, Biden changed the style of administration. He wanted to be an important advisor to President Obama in the background, said Biden. As Vice President, he was instrumental in supporting the President's course in domestic and foreign policy. Biden also traveled abroad several times as the president's representative for talks with other governments or to perform ceremonial tasks that are often the responsibility of vice-presidents. Biden was seen as a clear supporter of the 2010 healthcare reform in the United States , which President Obama vehemently pushed. The reform gave millions of Americans access to public health insurance. In the summer of 2011, Vice President Biden was a key figure in the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011 . The background to this was that the debt limit had to be increased due to increasing American government spending. However, since the Republican Party in the midterm elections in November 2010, the majority in the House of Representatives had won (even if the Democrats still control the Senate retained), it was inevitable for the Obama administration to find with the Republicans a consensus. Since the negotiations dragged on over a correspondingly long period of time, there was a risk of national bankruptcy without the statutory increase in the debt limit. In the breakthrough, which came in August 2011, the Vice President was a key negotiator with the Republicans and their opposition leader John Boehner . Biden also played an important role in Obama's administration in the adoption of labor laws and tax policy. In May 2012, Biden made headlines across the country when he spoke out in favor of allowing gay marriages across the United States. In an interview a few months later, President Obama also stated this.

Re-election and second term

Biden (right) with the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Munich Security Conference 2015
On November 10, 2016, Biden (left) receives his designated successor, Mike Pence, at the White House

Before the 2012 presidential election , some US media had speculated whether Biden could be replaced as a candidate for the office of Vice President, for example by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo . In the summer of 2012, however, Obama declared that he would compete with Biden again; both were nominated for a second term on September 6, 2012 at the Democratic Party Conference in Charlotte , North Carolina . He shaped the election campaign of the Democrats with his slogan : "Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." (German: " Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive"). Obama and Biden won 26 states and 332 electoral votes in the November 2012 election. Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan won 24 states and 206 electoral votes. Biden was sworn in again as Vice President on January 20, 2013 at the White House .

After the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, Biden took over the chairmanship of a working group for a change in gun law, in particular a legal ban on the sale of assault rifles to private individuals. As a senator, Biden was involved in similar working groups in Congress. A tightening of the gun law at the federal level did not find a majority in Congress.

During the civil war in Syria , Biden called for intervention, saying that Bashar al-Assad could no longer rule his people.

Since Obama's re-election, Biden has been traded as a possible successor and thus a Democratic presidential candidate for the 2016 election , in which Obama could not run again due to the limitation in office. On October 21, 2015, Biden announced that he would not run for the presidency in 2016, but that he would be “not quiet” in the upcoming election campaign . In May 2016, he said he wanted to run, but changed his mind after his son Beau Biden's cancer death in May 2015. In the fall of 2016, he made several campaign appearances with the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, where he denied the Republican candidate Donald Trump the eligibility for the presidency. On May 15, 2016, Biden (together with John Boehner ) was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame , which is considered the highest honor for American Catholics. On January 12, 2017, Biden was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction , the highest civilian honor in the United States, by President Obama ; this special design is only awarded extremely rarely (most recently in 2004).

The terms of office of Obama and Biden expired on January 20, 2017. After Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, the previous governor of Indiana , Mike Pence , succeeded Biden as vice president.

2020 presidential election campaign

Pre-election campaign

Biden during the 55th Munich Security Conference 2019

Following Trump's presidential election in 2016, which surprised many observers, Biden said that as a Democratic candidate, he could have won the election; Republican Senator Ben Sasse said Biden could have won a landslide against Trump. In May 2017, Biden founded a Political Action Committee , an organization to provide personal and financial support for his political work. In late April 2019, Biden announced that he would run in his party's primary election ahead of the 2020 presidential election. So he got into the internal competition of the Democrats relatively late. Previously, 19 other party members had already announced their candidacy, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders . Biden has long been considered a favorite, but remained in the first three votes in February 2020 without a win and thus below expectations. In the forecast for FiveThirtyEight based on aggregated polls , Bernie Sanders was the favorite for the Democratic nomination at the end of February, while Biden was in second place by a wide margin. At the Primary in South Carolina on February 29, 2020, Biden won with 49 percent of the vote against 20 percent for Sanders, which observers attributed to Biden's strength among African Americans . It was his first ever presidential election victory.

After further clear victories in the primaries and the support of other eliminated moderate candidates, Biden became the clear favorite again. On April 8, 2020, Bernie Sanders announced his withdrawal from the running for candidacy.

The evaluation of the pre-election results became known on June 5, 2020. As a result, Biden had reached the minimum number of 1991 delegates required to be nominated at the Democratic Party conference. On June 15, 2020, Biden set a new personal record in donations when he raised $ 6 million at an online campaign event. In May it hit a new high with donations of $ 81 million.

Political analysts saw Biden's strengths as his moderate pragmatism and his balancing nature - this sets him apart from Trump in a positive way. It is difficult to stylize Biden as a figure of hatred; in contrast to this is Hillary Clinton , who is running against Trump in 2016 . One of Biden's greatest weaknesses was his inability to speak . His speeches often deviated from the topic and turned into long, uninspiring monologues . He does not get to the point and leaves a lackluster impression, so also the tenor of commentators close to the Democratic Party. Satirist and television commentator Stephen Colbert said on The Late Show that the "greatest danger to Biden" lies in "his own mouth." Biden cut his best figure during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , when he retired to the basement of his house in Delaware in social isolation and largely abstained from public statements. As a result, he had gained stature compared to President Trump , whose misjudgments and failures in his approach to the crisis had become apparent.

On August 12, 2020, Biden declared California Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate , i.e. his candidate for the office of vice president .

Biden election campaign as a confirmed presidential candidate

Joe Biden at a campaign rally

See: 2020 United States Presidential Election - Joe Biden's campaign as a confirmed presidential candidate

Biden himself proved to be the most important source of ideas and impetus in the election campaign. According to his advisor Anita Dunn, it was one of the least manager-designed and shaped election campaigns in recent American history. Biden made the polarizing and extremely controversial administration of Trump , which endangered the "soul of the country", to his most important election campaign topic. Contrary to the advice of some Democrats, he led the campaign mostly in the Blue Wall states around the Great Lakes . At the primaries he had resisted internal party pressure to move further to the left programmatically, and continued this line in the presidential election campaign. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in the United States and Trump ignored its dangerousness , Biden was able to emerge as an alternative and explain to citizens how he would deal with this crisis if he was elected.

Election to president

On the evening of election day, November 3, 2020, Biden was initially just ahead of incumbent Trump in terms of votes, but behind him in terms of the number of electors won. Since in this election a previously unparalleled number of voters voted by postal vote because of the COVID-19 pandemic and their ballot papers were only allowed to be counted after the closing of the polling stations in some states, the counting dragged on for days in many states. Biden grew steadily in most of the major swing states because Democrats in particular had voted by postal vote. On November 7th, four days after the election, Joe Biden, with 273 electoral votes after the victory in Pennsylvania, was unassailable in front of Trump and was proclaimed President-elect of the United States by all the major US media . Ultimately, Biden garnered over 81 million votes and 306 of the 538 electors for Electoral College , compared to over 74 million votes and 232 electors for incumbent Donald Trump.

The actual election took place on December 14th. As expected, he was elected 46th President of the United States by a majority of the Electoral College electors. On January 6, 2021, the Senate and House of Representatives met in the Capitol for a joint session to count the votes from the Electoral College. The result was not confirmed until January 7 , 2021 , after an interruption of the meeting due to a storm on the Capitol. Biden's inauguration took place on January 20, 2021. The term of office began as required by law at 12 noon local time in Washington (see also President in the political system of the United States ).

Even before the Electoral College election, Biden and his foreign minister-designate Antony Blinken made it clear that they wanted the United States to return to the nuclear deal with Iran . This was canceled for America by Trump in 2018 .

Presidency

Swearing in

Joe Biden being sworn in as President

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021 in front of the Capitol in Washington . At his side, Kamala Harris was the first woman, the first African American and Asian American, to be sworn into the office of Vice President. In his inaugural address, Biden called for national unity and commemorated the 400,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States .

In the 117th Congress , Biden's Democrats have a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate . In the Senate, with a distribution of 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, the majority is achieved by the casting vote of Vice President Harris, who is also President of the Chamber by virtue of her office .

Political decisions in the first months after taking office

As a first official act , Biden signed 17 decrees a few hours after he was sworn in , more than any previous president. Most of them reversed orders by his predecessor Trump, and the further implementation of orders that Trump had previously issued was suspended. So he ordered including the re-entry of the United States on climate change - Paris Convention to which Trump had terminated unilaterally in June 2017 and re-entry of the US into the World Health Organization (WHO), from the Trump, the US previously had to escape. In addition, Biden ordered the construction freeze on the wall on the border with Mexico , which had been one of Trump's most important campaign promises in 2016. Biden lifted the so-called Muslim Ban and other entry restrictions imposed by Trump on the first day of his term in office. He also ordered the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline , which had previously been stopped by the Obama cabinet and continued under the Trump cabinet , to be stopped again. Other decrees related to emergency measures to control the Corona pandemic , including one for first 100 days in all establishments of the federal force mask duty .

In the week following his inauguration, Biden ordered transgender people to join the US armed forces . This was already allowed under Obama, but was reversed under Trump's presidency. On the same day, Biden signed a decree to strengthen the domestic economy; This decree, known as Buy-American , decreed that a larger portion of the government's procurement budget should be used for US-American products. In the same week, Biden had the granting of oil and gas drilling rights on federally owned land (including coastal waters ) stopped and existing drilling rights were put to the test.

After taking office, Biden initially completely stopped American drone attacks and developed new guidelines that should significantly limit the use of combat drones in the future (his predecessor Trump had significantly expanded air strikes by drones during his term in office).

On January 25, 2021, Biden took up a plan by Jack Lew , who was Treasury Secretary under Obama, from 2016 on a new $ 20 bill in place of Andrew Jackson , 7th President of the United States, who was controversial over slave ownership and crimes against indigenous people is to portray Harriet Tubman (~ 1820–1913), black escape helper for slaves from the southern states .

On January 26, 2021, Biden and Russian President Putin agreed to extend the last major nuclear disarmament treaty ( New-START ) with Russia, which would otherwise have expired at the beginning of February 2021, for a further five years.

In February 2021, Biden announced that he would raise the maximum number of refugees a year from 15,000 to 125,000 people, end support for Saudi Arabia's military intervention against Houthi rebels in Yemen , and stop the withdrawal of parts of US forces from Germany as ordered by Trump . Near the end of his term Biden's predecessor Donald Trump had decided that Huthi classified -Rebellen in Yemen as a terrorist organization. Related sanctions for doing business with the Houthi were suspended by Joe Biden for at least a month in February 2021 so that food deliveries to the population can continue so as not to worsen the famine in Yemen .

At the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in February 2021, Biden announced that he would be supporting the organization COVAX , which aims to guarantee equal and fair access to COVID-19 vaccines worldwide, with two billion US dollars as part of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic .

At the end of February 2021, Biden lifted entry bans for green card applicants, thereby making it easier to access work permits in the USA. At the end of February, Biden was unable to implement the gradual increase in the national minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 15 by 2025, which the Democratic Party was aiming for.

In March 2021, the US Congress passed an economic stimulus package proposed by Biden worth around 1.9 trillion US dollars, which would include direct payments to most taxpayers of 1400 dollars, corona tests, corona vaccinations, child benefits, school openings and additional support to be financed for the unemployed.

After US President Biden followed the policy of his predecessor, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic in his own country, de facto not initially exporting any vaccines from the USA - not even to neighboring Canada , which supplies its vaccines from the EU and via which it is actually for support In early March 2021, the EU officially and publicly asked him for some of the vaccination doses from AstraZeneca , which have not yet been used in the USA due to the lack of approvals. The manufacturer AstraZeneca also supported this and assured that it would replace the vaccination doses in the USA. This was rejected by the Biden government because they wanted maximum flexibility and press spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the goal for the US was to be "over-supplied and over-prepared". Biden also stated that this should be treated like a war: "I said we had to treat this like a war."

On March 18, 2021, spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that AstraZeneca's vaccine was planned to be shipped to the two neighboring countries: Mexico should receive 2.5 million vaccine doses and Canada 1.5 million; At the same time, she asked Mexico for support in coping with the sharp rise in the number of migrants on the US southern border.

After the rapidly increasing infection rates in India in April 2021, the government initially refused to lift export restrictions on raw materials for vaccines; State Department spokesman Ned Price stated that it was not only in the interests of the United States that Americans were vaccinated, but of the whole world: “It's of course not only in our interest to see Americans vaccinated, it's in the interests of the rest of the world to see Americans vaccinated. ”Following massive criticism from Indian and US health authorities, Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council , announced on April 25, 2021 that the government had identified precursors for Indian production of the AstraZeneca vaccine are urgently needed and immediately available, and that the US would fund a significant expansion of Indian manufacturing capacity.

In March 2021, Biden entrusted Vice President Harris with the task of curbing the dramatic increase in migration from Latin America to North America and illegal crossings of the border between the United States and Mexico .

In early April 2021, Biden's government lifted the sanctions imposed on the International Criminal Court by the Trump administration for investigations by the court into the acts of US soldiers.

At the beginning of April 2021, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke out on behalf of the US government in favor of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . At the same time, however, he reaffirmed the Trump government's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel .

In mid-April 2021, Biden announced that he had ordered the withdrawal of all US forces from Afghanistan from May 1 to September 11, 2021 and that he wanted to end the war in Afghanistan . According to media reports, he did not set any conditions for this. The decision of the USA was followed by the decision of NATO to withdraw all regular soldiers from NATO member states and partner nations from Afghanistan.

From April 22 to 23, 2021, Biden organized a digital climate conference on its own initiative, in which the presidents or heads of government of 40 countries (including the largest economic nations) took part. Several countries announced that they would increase their climate targets. Biden announced plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by 50 to 52 percent by 2030 compared to 2005.

staff

Biden introduced his ministers and executives to the Executive Office during the presidency transition . He referred a number of officials from the Obama administration and put the focus on ethnic diversity. In addition, nearly half of his cabinet is made up of women. As usual, on the day he was sworn in, he submitted nominations for cabinet positions to the Senate for confirmation. As Chief of Staff of the White House , Biden's longtime confidante Ron Klain began work immediately after the new president took office. In addition, the post of US climate officer was newly created and given cabinet rank. Former Secretary of State John Kerry took over this office .

reception

International politics

According to policy expert James M. Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), improving relations with traditional US allies and taking a more decisive stance on China are priorities under the Biden administration. Relations with allies are to be repaired in order to be able to act together again in international politics. China is to be increasingly confronted in its challenging politics, with the Biden administration hoping for the decisive support of allies such as Germany . The Biden administration wants to return to the negotiating table with Iran in order to be able to negotiate a new nuclear deal . The Biden administration also wants to continue to support Israel . According to Secretary of State Antony Blinken , Trump's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem should not be revised. In other conflicts in the region, be it the war in Syria or the gas dispute in the Mediterranean , the US wants to play a cautious role.

In the case of Russia , the Biden administration wants to move away from the hope of changing the behavior of the Kremlin through sanctions . But in the event of further human rights violations, Washington does not want to rule out further sanctions.

Awards and honors

Obama awards Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2017)

In 2008, Biden was recognized by the American magazine Working Mother for “improving the quality of life of Americans with family-friendly work policies ” (Original: improving the American quality of life through family-friendly work policies ) . He was also awarded the Hilal-i-Pakistan Order of Merit in 2008 along with Senator Richard Lugar for his continued support of Pakistan . The Kosovo gave Biden a year later, the Gold Medal for Peace in recognition of his work for the independence of the state.

In 2016, Biden was awarded the County Loth Freedom of the City Prize .

In January 2017, Biden was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction by President Obama , one of the two highest honors in the United States. Obama justified the award with Biden's lifelong commitment to the United States and its fellow citizens.

On December 10, 2020 Biden was together with his Vice President Kamala Harris by the American news magazine Time for Person of the Year nominated.

Documentaries

  • Joe Biden: Comeback King. 60 min. A film by Finlay Bald and Danielle Winter. USA 2020.
  • America has a choice: Trump versus Biden. 110 min. A film by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. USA 2020.
  • Joe Biden - The Portrait. 52 min. A film by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. USA 2021.

Fonts

  • Promises to Keep. On Life and Politics. Random House, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-6536-3 .
  • Promise me, dad. A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. Flatiron Books, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-250-17167-2 .
    • German: Promise me: About hope on the edge of the abyss. From the American by Henning Dedekind and Friedrich Pflüger. CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-76713-5 .

literature

  • Tim Koch: Joe Biden: The illustrated book about America's new president , Verlag 27amigos, Munich 2020, 39 photographs, ISBN 978-3-7505-0111-9 .
  • Branko Marcetic: Yesterday's Man: The Case against Joe Biden. Verso, London 2020, ISBN 978-1-83976-028-0 .
  • Evan Osnos : Joe Biden. A portrait. Translated from the American by Ulrike Bischoff and Stephan Gebauer. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42999-0 .
  • Jules Witcover: The American Vice Presidency. From irrelevance to power. Smithsonian Books, Washington, D. C. 2014, ISBN 978-1-58834-471-7 , pp. 495-508 (= 47. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware ).
  • Jules Witcover: Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption. William Morrow, New York 2010, ISBN 0-06-179198-9 .

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Individual evidence

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SURNAME Biden, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biden, Joseph Robinette Jr. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Democratic Party politician, 46th President, 47th Vice President of the United States, Senator for Delaware, and Professor of Law
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Scranton , Pennsylvania , United States