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Nixon's call to grieving Biden released
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Dec 06, 2008 11:12am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Wilmington (DE) News Journal |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 3, 2008 05:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Wilmington News Journal
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"President Richard Nixon's 1972 phone conversation with then-Sen.-elect Joe Biden, following the deaths of Biden's wife and daughter, was among 198 hours of tape recordings released Tuesday by the Nixon Presidential Library.
An exhausted-sounding Biden, who one day earlier lost his wife, Neilia, and daughter, Naomi, in a car accident while Christmas shopping, answered the phone, saying "Hello, Mr. President. How are you?"
Taking a deep breath, Nixon expressed his condolences, saying he knew it was "a very tragic day" and that he wanted to let him know "all of us here at the White House" were thinking and praying for him and his two surviving children.
Biden's sons, Beau and Hunter, were critically injured but made full recoveries.
"I understand that you were on the Hill at the time and your wife was just driving by herself," Nixon said.
"Yes, that's correct," said Biden, then 30.
Nixon continued, "I mean looking at it as you must in terms of a future because you, you have the great fortune of being young. I remember I was two years older than you when I went to the House," he said.
"But the main point is, you can remember that she was there when you won a great victory and uh, you enjoyed it together," Nixon said. "And now I'm sure that she'll be watching you from now on. Good luck to you."
Before hanging up, Biden thanked him for his call, which lasted a minute.
The Dec. 19, 1972, tape was among 1,398 conversations, recorded between November and December of 1972, that were released Tuesday." |
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