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The two sides of Joe Biden: Ambition combined with empathy make for an uncommon politician Marc Fisher, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 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 p...

Ambition combined with empathy makes for an unusual politician.

Biden transition head speaks out on 'difficult and intense' process POLITICO 12/18/2020 © Charles Dharapak/AP Photo Ted Kaufman speaks during a Senate hearing. Ted Kaufman, Biden’s longtime chief of staff and a former senator, says that leading Biden’s transition team “has been the most difficult and intense workload that I've ever experienced.” "I thought we [saw] the most difficult transition because of the Great Recession, the financial crisis, in 2008, but it's nothing like this," he said in an interview with the Center for Presidential Transition’s David Marchick for their...

Sursa foto: facebook.com Mark Gitenstein, former US ambassador in Bucharest, and Mircea Geoana, former Romanian ambassador in Washington and current NATO deputy secretary general, expressed their conviction on Monday, in an online discussion, that the relationship between the United States and Romania will consolidate during the next US administration, under the presidency of Joe Biden, according to AGERPRES. Joe Biden has a close connection with Romania. He has been there six or eight times, since he was a member of the US Senate, as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He has been th...