Stay. What you have to member joe biden have been forced out of the race in september 87 by a series of revelations, none of which individually were an almost laughable when you look back at them. But, by the time they were digested to the great long snake of the press corps seems to constitute an elephant of a character flaw. So biden had dropped out. He really did not come out speaking again until the turn of the year, 1988. It was february the first time that he had been out talking on the College Campus pretty went to the university of rochester as a matter fact periods see when did you go there . Guest no i was not there i was in New Hampshire with all of the good members of the pack. And joe gave his speech at the university of rochester. I then was questioned for several hours. When he got back to his motel room all the sudden bang, he got hit by a brick in the head. He was dizzy, he was nauseated he could barely see. He didnt know what was happening but it couldve been a heart attack but he did not know what it was. He just knew he could barely move. He didnt seem to have any will to do anything but he lay down on the bed, just thought if he get home he might be alright. He lay there awake in terrible pain all night. And finally dragged himself to the plane the next day. Got back to wilmington and they literally had to carry him up the stairs and wilmington. Send his brother called, fortunately, jimmy bidens got a nosed for trouble and a nose for his brothers need. He said look no more schedule, no more anything, put them in the hospital today. That very night through a terrible snowstorm that took them but ambulance out to walter reed where a surgeon, doctor george decided there is no time to delay there is an aneurysm in his skull. And they had to open his goal and get at this aneurysm. I dont know if the audience will know what an aneurysm is it is a weak spot in the wall of your artery. If it should first inside your skull, its not the loss of blood would kill you or anything like that. The force of the blood coming from the artery would literally start pulverizing your brain like a fire hose. And they did not have any time to waste. Doctor george said it before before and half hours and it turned out to be nine. See aneurysm first right there on the table and fortunately outward away from joes brain. It is a terrible mess and it critical time in this life they literally gave him last rites in the hospital. And fortunately, by the grace of god, got him back together. He woke up, being joe he counted the ceiling tile in his room, multiplied them to cackle at the area of the ceiling, spelled his name, spelled backwards, try to think how long he had been out. He felt he could think him he could talk he could move his limbs, and then it dawned on him that had he been campaigning in New Hampshire, which she certainly wouldve been had he not been forced out of the race. He would have been dead because he wouldve been up in the mountains. They never would have gotten back in time. What it did for joe it reawakened a sense of destiny that somebody up there had something for joe biden. We went you detailed the ambulance by going to the hospital. Guest yes i talked to his wife, joe into the kids and to ted kaufman who was his closest aide is his closest aide who was right there. Two but youve got Strong Language to that driver get this guest they got this ambulance from wilmington, theyre going to walter reed. The amlin sky did not know where walter reed was on the beltway. Theyre supposed to pick him up at the statewide and never met them in a middle of a snowstorm. Beau biden, the senator was riding shotgun. In the lead cop cars and had a ball cap on mimosa thoughts that bo was some kind of federal swat team geyer secret service guy or something. And they get there and they turned to bo and says where we going . Both that were were going. Youre the one that supposed to know. Until they just stopped by the side of the road. Finally joe biden, the senators wife is writing the back with joe darted hammering on the back wall that ambulance think i dont care what you know just get this damn thing going. She saw her husband in peril of his life where they were laying there will they were fooling around the radio and she was not going to have it. Smacked the Democratic NationalConvention Starting this week we are taking the seller to show you some programs about president ial candidate joe biden and the president ial candidates. Next joe biden reflects on the importance of her family and community. This is from may of 2019. So during one of the campaign, campaigning years people wanted joe to run for president. I was against it. And i told joe i was against it before these fighters came over to our house. And i knew what they were comin coming. They wanted to try to talk him into it. So i was down the pool on the lower level. I could hear them upstairs. They were like youve got to do the sheave got to do this. I was getting madder and madder i was so angry. So i walked into the house in the first thing is i was a magic marker. So had a twopiece bathing suit on. So i wrote know on my stomach. [laughter] and it walked through the meeting. [laughter] [applause] [applause] [laughter] so anyway they got the message. [laughter] the set i think you made your point. [laughter] we saw this in the video which was viewed beautiful, the beginning of the book quote the poem the child. The title of your book is taken from that problem. But theres one line in the book that i was just very curious about. Dont turn your head, keep looking at the bandage place. This is very significant to you and im curious what that means to you . Of the bandage place i think is making yourself, when you are vulnerable when you are hurting. When the experience loss like we have in our family, what that means is you are looking at the wound, the scar, and dont believe for a moment that you are healing yourself. And thats what i found through loss is that i never could have made it through without friends and family. Many, many, many of you in this room who supported me throughout and supported joe. And you know with your notes in your cards and your love and your caring. I think really, i you know i teach at a Community College. And i feel the same way about my school. About the Community College that really, it has a larger community. And thats also helping one another, get through the tough times. And whether that is your english class, or through law or illness or whatever you are going through. I think it is the sense of community that helps us. That we lean on one another and thats what helps us to get through. See mankiw also talk about your close relationship with your parents and your sisters growing up. And he referred to this is a circle of loyalty which i thought was beautiful. And then later you write about joe and the boys. And you say went all the others turned their backs and walk away you can count on me to it stay. That was their bond, one of shared memories of grief that absolute trust for it was them against the world. They were asking me to it join that sacred circle. And it seems like with joe and the boys you found something was very close to the relationship that you had with both your parents and your sisters. Seems like this is a very strong theme that runs through your life im just curious when were creating these types of relationships in your life, how did that inform you once you got to washington . Does it help you in terms of navigating . Speak it will sure when i met joe i thought joe and hunter had a very close circle. And then i felt that love is they opened up that circle and allowed me to it come in. And i think that our family we done everything together with sort of circled the wagons. I think when youre in public life you need that. You need that loyalty you need that love, that caring. As we go forward in the next journey we will do is weve always in will once again lean on one in each other support one another and i had that i had that growing up with my own sisters. I tell my own story in the book im the oldest of five girls. So my younger sister came home and said to me, shoots crying and she said jill, through always keep the reforms on me at the bus stop. And she was crying about it. And i said alright, come this was a bully in our neighborhood. So i went up the hill gray horse road, downtown bell and i went to his house and i knocked on the door. And he opened the door and might hold the back and i punched him right in the face. [laughter] [applause] that i said dont you ever throw worms on my sister again. [laughter] and then i was so scared iran all the way home. [laughter] and my father was home. Iran in and i said johnny i just punched drew and the nose and he said good for you. [inaudible] [laughter] so its that kind of loyalty i grew up with. We took care of one another. Cspan coverage of the Democratic National coverage starts this monday and book tv is taking a look at books about democratic president ial candidate joe biden. Next term 2010 author and columnist on joe bidens life an early political career. He met to tell you a little bit about each book you probably all of the stories about why the incredible beginning in politics running for county counsel in delaware at the age of 27 and winning. Then three years later running against an entrenched republican senator, for his seat and upsetting him. Two weeks after he was elected to the senate, before he was old enough to serve in the senate, he became at the age 30 and interim. It was a week before christmas when his wife delia, and three small children were in a terrible car accident outside of wilmington when a huge truck plowed into their car. Biden was obviously totally crushed thinking of abandoning going to the senate at all. And had to be decided by members of the family and also by the Senate Majority leader at the time, Mike Mansfield with leading democrats like Hubert Humphrey who would come to the senate. It was also therapy for his grief. It was only by that treating and the members of the family to urgent that he did so. We could call stories about joe biden always commuting on amtrak trains filming ten in washington. This began at the time of the accident he was determined was going to be with the boys who were then toddlers. And so he did every night. Every morning you get on the train to washington and that night he would come back on the train to wilmington. Back to someone into the senate the hospital bed i will biden who is still the hospital at the time. He continued to do that incredibly for 36 years. Other members of delaware delegation all fell in line accompanying him. It was part of the reason they turned out to be so close even though as a split delegation within the delegation. As a result of this behavior, the scheduling he had, biden was not very well known in the senate by the other senators. For quite a while. He went home every night while the others would eat and drink together and socialize together. Its all during the week. And also fact that joe biden was comments bill is and didnt have much to do with that circuit. He didnt go to receptions. Its pretty much been the same now that he is Vice President part little more so hes been seen around washington a little bit more. But he and his second wife, jil jill, go back to their home in wilmington just about every weekend. What did the other senators learn from this, is what everyone in delaware do was that biden had an uncommon commitment to his state, to his family, and to his catholic religion. That was the second of his life as a kid in scranton, pennsylvania, a bluecollar tow town. Its not a cliche to say that his family saw biden through the early tragedies in his life. And kenyon continued to be a main clutch for him throughout his political career. Where taking looks at books about democratic president ial candidate joe biden in anticipation of next Week National convention. In 2019 book tb talked with the Washington PostSteven Livingston about the working relationships between Vice President biden and president obama. As we all saw their working relationship is pretty powerful. We have seen all the pictures of them messing around together, having a good time. But they also work very well together as a team. It was a unique relationship. The fact that they were a very strong working team, but they also developed into a friendship weve never really seen in the white house. Erodes they were wary of each other the beginning. Yes they were wary of each other barack obama came into the senate in 2005 as a shiny new item from the Democratic Party. He was a big celebrity before he was the man on the move. He was the coolest thing the Democratic Partys ever seen for a long time. Barack obama was joe biden was something complete different for he been the senate for more than 30 years. He was a man of the senate. He basically grew up there. And he believed in the hierarchy, he believe the way the system worked. And he was a little bit wary of obama because obama was the guy on the move. And he wanted to slow obama down a little bit and show some respect for the institution he had just entered. So they sort of circled each other a bit. House biden change the roles of the president . How did he expand it . Did what did he do for obama. Biden wanted to be a different kind of Vice President. He wanted to be obamas chief counselor. Wanted to be the guy who was the last guy in the whispering obamas room when decisions had to be made. He really fashioned his vice presidency on a prototype that Walter Mondale had created under jimmy carter were mondale understood the Vice President was the guy whos not somebody who worked at the discretion of the president that he was elected with the president s we could be fired. He was the man who had to stand up and tell the president the truth. His sense of power. In biden understood that as wel well. He wanted to follow in mondales footsteps but also expand the role. Host what did obama think of bidens media gap throughout the eight years . What did obama think of biden s media gap. The eight years . There were quite a few, the still occurring today. But i think on the whole, obama was very generous about that. It didnt really mean that much to obama, he was able to look past them. Obama was a was looking at the long game. Wasnt thing about the ups and downs of the day of the moment. He wanted to see what he could do for america longterm. So these little blips in the road that occurred because biden misspoke or biden got ahead of him a little bit on some issues were not really that important. Because the big picture, obama had some place he wanted to get any did not want to get distracted. See what was biden always eyeing the presidency from his seat as vp . Guest thats a hard question. I think it was probably in his mind all the time. It was in his mind before he became Vice President we know he ran before, he didnt do too well. The presidency has always been something that is been in his heart. He is always wanted to be president. It would almost be unfair to say he wasnt thinking about while he was Vice President. But he did not make that obvious at all. And it didnt distract him from doing the job he had to do is Vice President. It is very loyal, helpful, helpmate to obama. Stu and what he thanks president obama hasnt endorsed Vice President biden for present yet . Guest its really politics. While they both really adore each other and they have and they still do. There is a marriage of politics, political marriage. And obama wants to be sure i think that we elect a democratic president next time around. And for him to endorsed anyone at this point before theres an actual bona fide candidate would be sort of jumping the gun. He has one big shot. That bigshot has to be the biggest shout he would take. Since he endorsed biden or anybody before we have a true candidate, will me do have that candidate anything he says would be diminished a little bit and would not have the strength they would have. So he will do it for one final time. C1 was a barack obama and joe bidens relationship unique for president Vice President . Guest i think it was completely unique. I dont think weve ever seen a president and Vice President behave the way they did. They enjoyed each others company. They went out together. Their families were close. Bidens or almost children, bidens grandchildren spent time together, had overnights together went out together. I Vice President and a president dont normally have a very close relationship because the history the Vice President really only exist for the purpose of taking over the president for whatever reason. So that is not the most Fertile Ground to create an intimate relationship because you know that the bryce president is there for one reason and one reason only. Kennedy was always a little bit wary and nervous around lyndon johnson. I may have been johnsons personality, may have been other things. Johnson sort of knew that too. He summed it up one day in his colorful language or he said every time i am in the presence of john kennedy, i feel like a god damn raven hovering over his shoulder. Theres a sense of tension between the president and Vice President that always existed. Somehow barack and joe were good. Cspans Democratic Convention starts this monday. Book tv looks at president ial candidate joe biden continues with a portion of a recent program with symone and sanders, advisor to his campaign. She talks about why she decided to work for mr. Biden after working for senator Bernie Sanders in the primary. It came time to decide if i wanted to go back to the hill or not, for a long time i wasnt certain i wanted to go. But i did not want to spend the election cycle sitting on a panel thinking about what other people are doing. I am a habitual campaign staffer. I wanted to do everything i can to get