Biden Biographer: What Biden Didn’t Say Was ‘He Also Gave His Body’ — A Man at the Winter of His Career Too

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OSNOS: "And let‘s be honest, Joe Biden is not completely at peace with this decision, but he is clear about it and he was candid about it. That‘s what was striking to me. It is going to be years while he works through this decision thinking, could it have gone another way? But he was completely clear about the stakes, about why he did it. At one point, he said, you know, 'I gave my heart and soul to this.' What he didn‘t say was he also gave his body. You know, we can see it right there tonight. This is a man who was telling us and showing us that he is in the winter of his career, too. And in that way, I think he gets to end it on the terms on which he started it, which is by saying, 'There is no graver threat that we have faced in the whole time I‘ve been in politics, and it is now in your hands.' It was, in a sense, a moment of delivery, delivering it to his successor and delivering it to all of us."