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By LAURIE KELLMAN
38 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) Shes fended off protesters who made a run at her husband. Shes moved him farther from reporters during the coronavirus pandemic. Shes supported his presidential ambitions again and again except in 2004, when she deployed a novel messaging technique to keep Joe Biden from running.
No, Jill Biden, then clad in a bikini, wrote in Sharpie across her stomach and then marched through a strategy session in which advisers were trying to talk her husband into challenging Republican President George W. Bush.
Protecting Joe stands out among Jill Bidens many roles over their 43-year marriage, as her husbands career moved him from the Senate to the presidential campaign trail and the White House as President Barack Obamas vice president. Shes a wife, mother, grandmother and educator with a doctoral degree as well as a noted prankster.
Now, with her husband on the brink of becoming the 46th president, Jill Biden is about to become first lady and put her own stamp on a position that traditionally is viewed as a model of American womanhood whether that means hewing to old ways or finding new, activist ones, in the manner of Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, for example.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-coronavirus-pandemic-campaigns-george-w-bush-d99158c327066f8a14aa8d2489435507
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,468 posts)Jill Biden will bring back the focus of being the FLOTUS. Not hiding in the shadows.
First on the list. .Restore COLOR back to Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden.
turbinetree
(24,631 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)What a great role model for young girls and women to strive for higher education and to have a meaningful and rewarding career.
pandr32
(11,446 posts)LizBeth
(9,946 posts)best of ways.