Biden extolls rule of law during speech in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- Civil and constitutional rights are under "unrelenting attack," former Vice President Joe Biden said during a speech Saturday at which he remembered former President George H.W. Bush as a man of class and decency.
Biden spoke at a University of Nevada, Las Vegas, law school fundraiser, where he also rallied for the rule of law.
The longtime Democratic senator from Delaware remembered fondly that Bush, a Republican who died late Friday, fought his own physical ailments to personally meet Biden in Houston, Bush's hometown, where Biden's son, Beau Biden, was treated before dying of cancer in 2015.
Bush was in a wheelchair, Biden said.
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