As a senator, Biden had a rule that he be interrupted no matter what when his sons called

[Triana]

. . .

"The rule in the office was if the boys called, he was to be interrupted no matter what he was doing or who he was talking to," Kaufman said. "He was never out of communication with them."

Biden's father, a proud man who had made his children talk about foreign affairs around the dinner table, would frequently come down to the Capitol to see the young senator, sitting in on his son's hearings and other meetings. "His dad loved it," Kaufman recalled.

. . .

THE REST:

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/24/nation/na-biden24

[Marie Marie]

1. Obama/Biden...

The REAL family values politicians. And it shows!

[63splitwindow]

6. Yep

Not the right-wing plastic BS---- the REAL DEAL!

[Cha]

9. Exactly, Marie~ The most beautiful families and we're so lucky to have them as our

President and VP Prez..


Blake Hounshell
✔ ‎@blakehounshell
Beau Biden, age 4, watches from his hospital bed as did Joe is sworn in to the Senate. RIP. http://politi.co/1RA91d4
4:54 PM - 30 May 2015

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/30/rip-beau-biden/

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. A great father

and one that has have to endure too much. I can't imagine coping with such loss and to happen again. I will really pray for all the strength he and his family needs to carry on.

[Luminous Animal]

3. He lost his first wife and child to an accident. And now losing another child… tragic.

[Triana]

5. I know. That's what makes this so much more heartbreaking than it otherwise would be.

No one should have to suffer so many losses of close, dear ones in one lifetime. Especially not a great family like the Bidens. It's just too much.

[malaise]

11. Beau survived that accident

Too sad

[elleng]

4. The loss also shook his deep Catholic faith.

"I felt God had played a horrible trick on me," he wrote.

Montana Sen. Mike Mansfield, the Democratic leader at the time, convinced Biden to stay in the Senate. (He was sworn in at one son's bedside in the hospital.) But Biden resolved not to be separated from his family. He gave up a house that he and his wife had planned to buy in the capital and instead went back to Delaware every night.

[iandhr]

7. I read about that when he was picked for VP

After some of the other Dems convinced him to try to serve six months he decided to commute to DC from Delaware.

[BeyondGeography]

8. This story just hurts and hurts

[SCVDem]

10. Awwww Joe

If you were here I would give ya a big hug.

My sympathy to you and yours.