He knows well the White House, where he has already spent eight years with the Obamas. And now he returns to the White House as first lady. The Italian-American Jill Biden is a woman of character and a valuable advisor to the president-elect at the White House. From reluctant politics to First Lady, Jill is next to the former vice president from 43 years old, supporting him in his life public made up of successes, defeats and painful losses, like that of his son Beau. She likes joke, loves teaching and some describe it as a mix between Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt e Hillary Clinton.
Of origins Sicilian (grandfather was called Gaetano Giacoppa), Jill spent most of her childhood in Pennsylvania – the state that eventually gave the presidency the husband – keeping alive thanks to the father Dominic many Italian traditions, such as Sunday dinner at grandma’s house with spaghetti and chops. “My grandfather always said ‘end up with tarallucci and wine’,” Jill recalled in an interview months ago.
The meeting with Joe Biden dates back to 1975, a blind appointment organized by the brother of the former vice president: despite Jill was still in college and Joe already widowed with two sons, something immediately snapped between the two. But for Biden it wasn’t easy: Jill has answered spades five times to his proposals for marriage before pronouncing the fateful Yup. “I wanted to be sure, the marriage it had to work: i boys they had already lost theirs mother and they couldn’t lose another. I had to be 100% sure, ”she explained Jill in the past recalling the four-way releases with “Joe, Beau e Hunter. Four of us got married ”.
I public roles of her husband, including the vice presidency, have never extinguished his passion and his desire to teach. When it was Second Lady she continued to teach despite the opposition of Secret Service, taking with him the homework to be corrected. And it intends to continue to do so at White House. This is a role he has not aspired to for years: in 2003, he said, when some senior party officials went to their home in Delaware to try to convince Biden to run for the presidency, Jill she sported a bikini with ‘NO’ written on her stomach in order to show her annoyance.
Things have changed since then: Jill was at the forefront of the whole countryside electoral and was directly and extensively involved in the choice of Kamala Harris for the vice presidency as a shadow adviser. During the primary Jill it has also proved a valid one bodyguard defending her husband from some protesters who had managed to get on the stage where the former vice president was. His snap and grip to lock them are the result of one constant physical activity, made up of 8 kilometers of running a day and work out with weights. All without ever giving up on one style impeccable, classic and always elegant.
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