That time when Joe Biden over-shared with Kitty Kelley (1974) aka TMI!!!!!

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Apparently he’d have been more gaffe-prone prior to then (FWIW, I like Biden a great deal personally so this is not a dig at the man, I thought it was mostly funny albeit somewhat regrettable). Gawker does a good summary, but there is a link to the original article in the article for your perusal.

Much of the article focuses on Biden’s late wife, Neila, who died in a car accident in 1972. And most of the discussion about Biden’s late wife, Neila, focuses on the terrific sex they had while she was still alive. Some key quotes:

“Neilia was my very best friend, my greatest ally, my sensuous lover. The longer we lived together the more we enjoyed everything from sex to sports.”
“Let me show you my favorite picture of her,” he says, holding up a snapshot of Neilia in a bikini. “She had the best body of any woman I ever saw. She looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn’t she?”
“My beautiful millionaire wife was a conservative Republican before she met me. But she changed her registration.”
“At first she stayed at home with the kids while I campaigned but that didn’t work out because I’d come back too tired to talk to her. I might satisfy her in bed but I didn’t have much time for anything else.”

http://gawker.com/the-best-parts-of-a-very-sexual-very-horny-very-good-1733383427

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1. what a great interview

Amazing

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2. Here is the original article for you Gawker-adverse folks.

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/index.php?mod=e2this

I find it particularly creepy that weeks after his wife’s death Sally Quinn wanted to do a story not Joe as the most eligible bachelor in Washington. Guess the press have always sucked:

"According to his staff he was hounded for weeks by the media. “It was awful in the beginning,” says Chazy Dowaliby, a press aide. “A few weeks after Neilia’s death we got a call from Sally Quinn of the Post. She wanted to do a story on the Senator as Washington’s most eligible bachelor. Naturally we said no but it wasn’t easy because she kept calling all the time. She wasn’t the only one. Women’s Wear Daily ca lled morning, noon, and night. And so did every female magazine in the country. They all wanted to write some kind of weeping willow story on him and he knew it. So he told us to refuse all press calls.” Biden wouldn’t even talk to journalists like the Post’s David Broder, and he wouldn’t appear on the “Today” show or “Face the Nation” or “Meet the Press.”

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3. Nelia died just after Biden had been elected to the Senate

and before he was sworn in. He actually considered giving up the seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Election_and_tragedy.3B_recovery_and_new_family

On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. Neilia Biden's station wagon was hit by a tractor-trailer as she pulled out from an intersection; the truck driver was cleared of any wrongdoing. Biden's sons Beau and Hunter survived the accident and were taken to the hospital in fair condition, Beau with a broken leg and other wounds, and Hunter with a minor skull fracture and other head injuries. Doctors soon said both would make full recoveries. Biden considered resigning to care for them, but was persuaded not to by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield.

When Biden was sworn into office on January 5, 1973, by Francis R. Valeo, the Secretary of the Senate, it was in a small chapel at the Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center. Beau was wheeled in with his leg still in traction; Hunter, who had already been released, was also there, as were other members of the extended family. Witnesses and television cameras were also present and the event received national attention.

At age 30 (the minimum age required to hold the office), Biden became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history, and one of only 18 senators who took office before reaching the age of 31. But the accident left him filled with both anger and religious doubt: "I liked to [walk around seedy neighborhoods] at night when I thought there was a better chance of finding a fight ... I had not known I was capable of such rage ... I felt God had played a horrible trick on me." To be at home every day for his young sons,[53] Biden began the practice of commuting every day by Amtrak train for 1½ hours each way from his home in the Wilmington suburbs to Washington, D.C., which he continued to do throughout his Senate career. In the aftermath of the accident, he had trouble focusing on work, and appeared to just go through the motions of being a senator. In his memoirs, Biden notes that staffers were taking bets on how long he would last. A single father for five years, Biden left standing orders that he be interrupted in the Senate at any time if his sons called. In remembrance of his wife and daughter, Biden does not work on December 18, the anniversary of the accident.

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4. Yes, and I love this from the Kitty Kelly piece -

"The Senate passed a resolution allowing him to be sworn in at the hospital bedsides of his sons. That was more than a year ago, and at the time he wasn’t sure he’d be able to stay in the Senate through 1973. He said he would resign if his Senate duties took too much time away from his sons. “They can always get another Senator, but my boys cannot get another father.”