The two sides of Joe Biden: Ambition combined with empathy make for an uncommon politician
Marc Fisher, The Washington Post
Jan. 13, 2021
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Joe Biden, like any president, is a man of great ambition. This is a guy who started developing a detailed plan for a presidential campaign when he was in college. Actually, trace it back even further: Biden once visited his old Catholic school, and a student asked whether he d always wanted to become president. Biden demurred, but a nun who d taught him years before stepped in with a reminder - it turned out young Joey had written a paper about his desire to be chief executive.
House hands Trump a second impeachment, this time with GOP support
Mike DeBonis and Paul Kane, The Washington Post
Jan. 13, 2021
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1of3A week after the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi greets the National Guard troops occupying and surrounding the newly fenced-in Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.Washington Post photo by Melina MaraShow MoreShow Less
2of3House Speaker Nancy Pelosi greets the National Guard troops occupying and surrounding the newly fenced-in Capitol Complex in Washington on Wednesday.Washington Post photo by Melina MaraShow MoreShow Less
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WASHINGTON - The House made history Wednesday by impeaching a president for a second time, indicting President Donald Trump a week before he leaves office for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election that led to the storming of the Capitol and five deaths.
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Harris s voice is the sound of a shifting power structure
Robin Givhan, The Washington Post
Jan. 13, 2021
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Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., campaigns for president in North Las Vegas, Nev., on March 1, 2019.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara
Everything will be different. The 49th vice president will be sworn into office in the midst of a pandemic and without the vast crowds. The ceremony comes after a mostly White mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and the populace is still caught in the turbulence of the most fractious and destructive administration this country has ever seen. For the first time, the words of that oath will not be uttered by a White man, but by a Black woman. This voice of authority - the second-highest-ranking executive in the land - will not be a masculine baritone. It will not echo generations of traditions and assumptions, omissions and belittlements. Instead, the voice of Kamala Harris will ring with the sound of the future.
Joe Biden, 78, will lead an American gerontocracy
Dan Zak, The Washington Post
Jan. 12, 2021
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1of5President-elect Joe Biden will be the oldest president in U.S. history. Some other powerful D.C. figures are older still.Washington Post photo by Melina MaraShow MoreShow Less
2of5Nancy Pelosi turned 80 in March. She is the highest-ranking Democrat in Congress.Washington Post photo by Demetrius FreemanShow MoreShow Less
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4of5Mitch McConnell turned 78 in February. He is the highest-ranking Republican in Congress.Washington Post photo by Melina MaraShow MoreShow Less
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When he was born, Americans were rationing coffee and bootlegging gasoline. Schoolchildren were salvaging newspaper for the war effort, smearing their hands with ink about Hitler and Hirohito. On the radio, Louis Prima was playing That Old Black Magic. In Scranton, Pa., the Junior Catholic Daughters of the Americas were preparing to read The Song of Bernadette. And less