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Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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first: 2024-01-04
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“And it is. And people, and a lot of people aren't inclined to talk about it. Either they don't know how to or want to. Anyway, I've never known anybody who hasn't. benefits from alumni talking about it.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, thank you, and I appreciate you. I think you're sharing your situation with so many people. It gives them hope because a lot of people think I must be the only one that's happened to me. When they know other people are there and they”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“by the way. Bo's son. Looks like him. Hunter's son looks like Bow. Bo named his son Hunter and Hunter named his son Bo. I mean, it's like, I know it sounds stupid to people who haven't been through this. There's this thing, and I even find that I'll find one of my grandchildren doing what Bo would have done. I mean, literally what Bo would have done.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a Because look She's in your heart, he's in your heart. I mean, you can't look in the mirror and not see her. Presumption of me to say that.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, again, it's almost... Almost more of a feeling than it is articulateable, able to articulate the detail of it. But I just think that the time's going to come. Going to see him again And I know that sounds probably.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I find solace in my faith. And all the stories about how the Irish were persecuted. We scraped all this stuff to talk about. And this is called a prisoner's rosary. They weren't allowed to have rosaries like Lady of Guadalupe in Irish prisons during the famine. But they had these. And I find myself, you know, going to bed and just saying a decade is just holding on. And it's almost rote, but it just, I feel connected to Beau too. Naomi Tenelia. But again, I have been beautiful.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What would I have done differently? Maybe I shouldn't have been commuting. Maybe I, for example, right after this happened, it was a Ford Station wagon. I thought, well, maybe I had the wrong car if they'd been another car. Maybe this wouldn't happen. Maybe they, you know, or if...”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bingo. That's what I mean. Look, you know, it's. It's really hard as hell to figure out. I found myself spending a lot of time. What could I have done? Was it my fault this all happened? What could I have done differently?”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're always going to be with you. Your mother's in your heart every single day. Your brother, as horrible as that was for your mother and for you, your brother, but in your heart, you're there every single day. And there'll come a time as you face them to this. I'm no psychiatrist, state the obvious, but when you can sort of welcome that, that you have that, you had that, that it was there. I think the hardest thing must be to deal with your brother's circumstance.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's one thing to welcome it, another thing to deal with it. I don't want anybody who welcomes grief. I didn't welcome it, but you got to confront it. You got to deal with it, look at it, and understand it and decide I'm moving on because I have another purpose in life. My two children are alive, my grandchildren, my wife, whatever it is. It's not welcoming grief. It's facing it. And one of the things I tell people, the mama will come. When the memory of the one you lost that you're dealing fighting through, where you're going to open one of those boxes and you're going to smile before you cry, that's when you know you're going to make it. Time will come, but you got to face it. But it's hard as hell. And like I said, the thing, I mean this from the bottom of my heart, my word is abiding. I think it's critical that people understand that”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I took it downstairs and I burned it. I could not, could not. I don't want to know the detail. I don't want to know the detail. I'd like to pray, God, that that car hit and they were gone. And the boys don't remember anything. But you know. Well, I just think it's really, really, really difficult for that woman to get that news. The hardest part was going home because I wasn't sure the message I got, they're not sure who the boys are going to make it. I know they were dead or alive going home.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some people can't. I never wanted to know the detail. I didn't want to know any of the detail. I always saw a committee on transportation in the United States Senate. And it was about trucks and brakes. I couldn't hold hearings. I didn't want any part of that. I couldn't do it. And I remember when we, I told you we sold the house that we had. And the house we moved into, I had moved all those boxes you talk about. Well, I moved on the third floor a bunch of boxes I had never opened. Open Open one of the boxes that had never been opened. A disciple was going to throw out not there above 15 boxes in that third floor attic room. There was a scrapbook, and someone thinking they were doing me a favor kept a scrapbook or the accent everything. And I opened it up. And there was a picture of the car. Closed it.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, I mean, You know. I can remember the worst of all feelings I've ever had in my life. Where I didn't know whether my two boys were alive when I was going home after I heard that accident call, and I'm told that my wife was dead on top of my one son, my daughter was dead on top of my other son. It took several hours of the jaws of life to get them out. What I've never been able to do”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it really is. I mean, Bow's two children. I'm with them. We're with them all the time. I mean, Natalie's turn out to be such an incredible kid. She's happy. She's doing really well. His son's a handsome young boy. Every single Thanksgiving since before Bo passed away. We go to Nantucket because that's where Bo liked to go as a family. And all of us together because it's just the memories. Yeah.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there is, at least in my family, and people who are really close to Beau. I mean, we'll be sitting there sometimes not having talked about anything, and all of a sudden, you know, my daughter will say, you know, remember when Bo did that when we were at the beach? Remember that time Bo did boom, boom, boom.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There Look, I had an advantage. I still had Ashley and I still have Hunt. I'll get calls on my daughter and my sons. Dad, how are you doing today? Everything okay? Good, doing well? I mean, it's constant context.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do all the time. I ask myself, I promise you, I promise you. I ask myself all the time, what would Bo do? A difficult decision.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I tell you exactly what happened. Jill and I went home on a Friday night to see Bow. We didn't have much time left. But it was clear the diagnosis of read. Anyway, he said to his wife, would you put the kids to bed, I want to talk to Dad? He said, Dad, look at me, Dad. And there's this tradition that Norhell came from our family. He said, if you want someone to look at me dad and he pointed, I'm looking at Johnny. He said, I want your word as a biden. Promise me. Promise me you'll be okay when I go. I said, Bob, I don't want to talk about it. I said, Dad, promise me. I know you, Dad. You're going to want to quit. You're going to want to go in. You're not going to want to do it anymore. Dad, promise me you will not quit. Give me your word, Dad. I said, Bo said, Dad, give me your word, Dad.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think it... It made me a little more fatalistic also caused me and deal enormous pain because He should be the one sitting there talking to you. Bo. He was a better man than I am, and so was Hunter. Both boys were always looking out for me, taking care of me. If they thought I was getting down, they'd, hey, Dad, come here, we're going to do boom, boom, boom.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is here. A smile on his face just waving, he's walking into the garden. And look. Bow and hunt, they finish each other's sentences. They are closest they could possibly be And I think the loss of Bo was a profound, profound impact on Hunter. But when Jill and I got married, she was just totally embraced by them. Everything we've done, we've always done as a really close-knit family”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he looked up and he looked out, and all these cows around grazing. He looked, he said, Daddy. I love you more than holy.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. I remember riding. We were in the car hunter. Five years old, six years old, and we're riding along and the top was down. In those days you could put a kid in your lap. I know my lap, I should. I remember those days. It was crazy. And we stopped at a stop sign and we were in the country.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Something to keep you completely engaged. And I had two things. For example, every single day I talk to every one of my children or grandchildren who are alive. I mean, literally, I text them every single day. I talk to them. The thing that saved me and Jill with Bo was the fact that we have these kids and just keep reaching out, you keep touching them. I know you have two children now, but I mean, they were my salvation. They were, you know, they'd”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But when he came home, it was clear that it was a death sentence. It wasn't a question of if, but when he was going to die, how long it would take. But I think you have to find purpose. Purpose beyond your pain. You have to find some...”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he had been in Iraq, unfortunately for a year next to one of those burned pits, and he got global blastoma, brain disease”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and raising a family where you were expected to reach out to people. It wasn't something you had to go through something horrible. I remember I joke that, you know, I learned my values at my grandpa finning his kitchen table. I've been Scranton when he used to say, Joe, remember, you're a man of your word without your word. You're not a man. He'd talk about how he lost his son, Ambrose Finnegan, in the war. And he talked about all the good pieces of him and why he was so special and how the family stuck together. And my dad went through some tough times. But my dad just got back up.”
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“Have gone through so damn much and they have none of the kind of help I had. I mean, I really think, I think there's a lot of heroes get up every morning, put one foot in front of them, and I don't know how the hell they do it. Don't know how they do it.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that would be presumptuous to me to say better or worse, but I'm slightly different. I find myself focusing on the things. Of the best things ever happened to me was one of the worst things when I was a kid I stuttered badly like that and I was the run of the litter too. I was always a little guy. And I used to hate the fact I stuttered. It would tighten me up so much having to read aloud in school or those kinds of things were really hard. But I realized it was a great lesson I learned because everybody has something they can't fully control. Everybody. And so it turned out to be a great gift for me that I stuttered. I think the upside of going through what I went through is making me realize that there's so many people out there.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From the suffering above. My mother was ahead of me because it was, I mean, my dad, though, you know, you can't feel sorry for yourself. So many other people go through so much more than you've gone through. He never said it that way. But it was like, you know, why would you be exempt?”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The old comic book and the Viking when the ship, and there's two frames in it. One where his ship gets struck by lightning and he's standing looking up at God and saying, why me? And the next frame is a voice from heaven says, why not? My dad handed to me and said, don't forget it, honey. Don't forget my mom.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I decided that we're just going to sell the house, gonna move, and we did. But it was a really difficult time. It was all still so raw. Fast forward about 10 years later, I built a home. And I built it on a pond. And across the pond was a woods. I remember we'd have, if we had a fundraiser for my campaigns, we'd do it at my home. And my dad would come. And we're standing out in this back porch looking over this pond. And I didn't think I was being maudled. And I said, you know, I wish Neila could have seen this because she lived up in the Finger Lakes and Lake Scandinavian Atlas loves the lakes. And my dad went up to the local Hallmark store and came back with a frame version of Hagar the Horrible.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I get that one because I purchased this home that we loved and it was a neat house. We loved it. But every time I couldn't take any more open-the-closet and smelling the fragrance or walking through a room and having a memory or packing up the clothing, I mean, that was a really, really hard.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got really lucky. No man deserves one great love, let alone two. My youngest brother set me up on a blind date five years after I lost Nelia and Jill. Had to ask her five times to marry me, but I literally, but my boys were in good shape. They were coming along. Again, I had just an incredible family. I told you the expression the family was just get up, get knocked down, get up. And I read one of you, I heard one of your podcasts about how you started unpacking boxes and how difficult it was”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Night to be with your boys, but I did every single night. I get a train and go home because I wanted to kiss them goodnight. And every night, no matter what time I got home, sometimes it was late. They'd be in bed. I'd climb in bed with each of them individually.”
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“I did that in the sense that I didn't want to stay in the Senate. I was going to leave and I had my brother talking to the governor about a replacement for me.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“True. Look, you could see how people, when they've been to the top of the mountain, had everything. Their life was like wonderful and everything gets crushed, how they could say, I'm never going to be there again. So I don't want to do this anymore. But, you know, one thing I did do, I'm the only Irishman ever met and never had a drink. But I had actually gone downstairs in the house we were still living in, the boys and I, and I'd take out a bottle of liquor and put on the table and say, I'm going to drink, I'm going to get drunk. I never took a drop, but I stared at it. Just how do you escape”
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“Well, I thought about, I can understand how people could do it. I didn't contemplate it per se because I had two boys that needed me.”
2024-01-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · The Axe Files presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I won the gene pool. I was raised by a mom and a dad who were. My mom was a person of faith. My dad was a guy who had been through some tough times and just got up saying and the family was, just get up. Just get up. And when you get knocked down, just get up. And I had the great advantage because when it happened to me, I had a whole family. My deceased wife and I had purchased a home. It had a barn. My brother moved in and turned the barn into a little apartment. My sister and her husband left their place and moved in with me to help me raise the kids. And we have an expression in our family. If you have to ask us too late, I mean, for real. And they were there. And my mom lived and my dad lived not, but”
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“Yeah, 13 months old, my boys were not quite three, not quite four. You and a day apart. And I just remember, like a lot of people feel, I think, I remember walking out through the capital and looking up at the heavens saying, why'd you do it? You know, I was angry like I was talking to God. I know it sounds strange, but I was really angry.”
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“I'm happy to do it. Look. One of the first things I learned after I got that phone call. I was down here. 1972. And I got a phone call from the fire department at home in Delaware. And they put a young woman on the phone, one of the first responders and said, you got to come home. There's been an accident. And I said, what's the accident? Well, your wife and three kids were hit by a tractor trailer and you should come home. And the poor kid, she was a young woman and said, your wife's dead. Daughter's dead, and your boys are really hurt.”
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