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Biden always wanted to be president
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“Stephanie Gibbs, “Biden’s CNY Days Showed Ambition, Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard, June 10, 1987; John H. Richardson, “Joe Biden: Advisor in Chief,” Esquire, January 22, 2009. ”
Excerpt From: Branko Marcetic. “Yesterday's Man.” Apple Books.
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“I’m no Crusader Rabbit about this,” Biden said. “I want to be in the U.S. Senate next year.” Show what about truth? “The reason we have avoided the blunt truth is that we have felt that if we told the truth, we would alienate some portion of the people and not get elected,” he said. Biden pledged not to do that. He said that the secret of George Wallace’s success in the recent Florida presidential primary was no secret at all. “He has hit on the populist theme,” Biden said. “He is going around saying things part of which people know are true but the other politicians aren’t talking about.”
[Source] {Another source explains how much Wallace’s anti-busing arguments were working in Florida.}
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Biden opposes redistricting as a means of desegregation (1972)
“Racial balance (in schools) and of itself means nothing.”
[”Biden Hits School Redistricting Plan,” The News Journal, Wilmington, DE, (20 September 1972) ]
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Biden - On Busing to Fifth Graders
“Kids had no choice in this... You shouldn’t hate black kids. They had nothing to do with it. Black kids don’t want to come to your school any more than you want to go to their school,” he said. . [”Biden on Busing: ‘Don’t Learn to Hate This Young,” Evening Journal, Wilmington DE (24 November 1976)]
[He went on to say he’d lose 5,000 votes by telling the kids “Don’t let your parents tell you to hate.”]
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Biden on Busing
10 September 1975
“Biden says antibusing racist label undeserved.”
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Biden as Attorney
He defended someone who stole a cow.
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Joe Biden Ambition
In 1970, he was put on the committee to revamp the County Democratic Party. When making statements about his concern, he said he was only 27 so this would not impact him, but might in 15 years. In less than a year, he announced his candidacy because he would, in fact, be old enough to run (just barely). He seems to have given them the impression that he not only wouldn’t... but couldn’t. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54001994/
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Biden not opposed to shell... just where the refinery is located (1971)
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When Shell later gives testimony, Biden checks in about polution and jobs for local people. Another person on the committee asks about “(minority) local people.” Source
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Biden at trial
He successfully defended someone from a minor drug charge with no evidence, police present, or event a prosecutor? His client was still lectured about drugs by the judge [Link]
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Complaints of illegal campaigning (1972)
But they had no formal complaint? [Source, seeming to be drawn out by someone supporting Biden?] [Source]
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Busing Links
Some links about busing...
- Leader of an Anti-Busing Organization writing an editorial about how Biden is a good guy and not to blame for busing happening or racism (1978) [Source: John Trager, “Editorial: Attacks on Biden Unfair,” The Morning News, Wilmington, DE 4 Nov. 1978]
Biden opposing busing in his first Senatorial Campaign [Link] (Note that Boggs did not have quite the same stance as Biden)
“It is wrong to try to achieve racial balance in the schools by busing. But it is right to bus if you are attempting to move children from inferior to superior schools.” 30 March 1972, “Biden announces his Candidacy for Senate.,” Delmarva News, Shelbyville, Delaware.
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Reasons Biden said he ran for county office, according to newspapers.
“state takeover of county welfare responsibilities without a decrease in taxes, increaded cost of police protection coupled with an increase in the county crime rate, and poor communication between government officials and residents on projects like ‘Operation Breakthrough’ and proposed county public housing.” (So against public housing?) The Morning News, Wilmington Delaware (23 May 1970)
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Joe Biden on Low Income Housing, 1973
“Everybody’s opposed to public housing - no one wants it in their backyard, but dammit if you have a moral obligation to provide, provide it - but spread the load around.” The newspaper goes on to explain, “He would like to see scattered site housing units of 25 to 30 units all around the county, with each complex having a full-time live-in director.” [Source]
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Joe Biden and Housing 1: The Homestead Revitalization
Joe Biden is accredited with supporting housing for low income folks throughout his career. His a recent article that says it.
He sponsored a homesteading act that gave away houses to people in “urban” (black) neighborhoods if they would, for the most part, pay for all the labor or do all of the work to restore it. This was to improve the neighborhood, but according to a NYT article in 1973 it would be prohibitively expensive for anyone poor (black) to do this work. The goal was “urban revitalization.”
In Wilmington, over several years, only 28 properties were involved in this with over 400 applicants. Unlike some efforts that are grassroots, this was run by the city and applicants had to prove, amongst other things, their financial and credit history. Financing options involved loans and properties were in primary black neighborhoods. [Source]
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