With “Promise Me Dad” being written by Joe Biden, I was expecting some commentary on the political climate when he was in office. My most recent reading of the book delivered on that point.
The reading began by following the developing story of Joe’s son Beau and his tumor. The chapter follows the hopelessness that Joe and the rest of his family were feeling as the first diagnosis was presented and the first surgeries started. Joe admires Beau’s sense of confidence, determination, and stubbornness during the treatment and begins to use that determination to drive him forward politically.
But the duties of a Vice President do not leave Joe alone, and Joe is called to represent the president at a funeral for two police killed on the job, and later an unarmed black teen killed by police. Joe meets with the families and sympathizes with them after dealing with death in his own family. He makes genuine connections with the families in the tragedies and the grieving families look to him as a trusted figure.
However, other politicians use this time of grieving to strengthen their stances on various issues as the eyes of the nation are looking at these terrible incidents.
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