Born to a working-class family, Biden faced bullying throughout his teenage years for his speech impediment. Classmates would mock him with names like Bu-bu-bu-Biden or Joe Impedimenta. And while he attended an elite private Catholic school, he also had to work on the grounds crew to afford tuition.
Undeterred, Biden went on to graduate from Syracuse Law and pursue politics. But even on Capitol Hill, Biden s background made him an outlier. He didn t go to an Ivy League school, Evan Osnos, author of the biography Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, told Insider. He didn t feel 100% at home among the Rhodes Scholars and others in Washington who were flexing their credentials.
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Guardian (UK) In a cold, sombre, damp Washington four years ago this Wednesday, Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States and delivered an inaugural address now remembered for two words: American carnage.
He delivered, but not as he promised. Trump pledged to end the carnage of inner-city poverty, rusting factories, broken schools and the scourge of criminal gangs and drugs. Instead his presidency visited upon the nation the carnage of about 400,000 coronavirus deaths, the worst year for jobs since the second world war and the biggest stress test for American democracy since the civil war
In a cold, sombre, damp Washington four years ago this Wednesday, Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States and delivered an inaugural address now remembered for two words: American carnage. He delivered, but not as he promised. Trump pledged to end the carnage of inner-city poverty, rusting factories, broken schools and the scourge of criminal gangs and drugs. Instead his presidency visited upon the nation.