Few ardent supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden would argue with the suggestion that he chose his words poorly when discussing his ability to work with Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia in the context of the civility that once existed in the Senate. …
If they watched the Senate in operation then, they might understand what Biden was trying to say, however clumsily.
I was there. In fact, my first part-time job as a freshman in college was on Capitol Hill in the Senate, beginning in January 1973, the same month the then-30-year-old Biden was sworn into office. CONT.
Charlie Cook