Eulogies have become some of the defining speeches of the Biden presidency. Read more in tonight's edition of West Wing Playbook 👇
whose memorial he will speak at on Sunday in Minnesota. He spoke Wednesday at the ceremony for former Secretary of State’s memorial in Utah next week but hasn’t decided, a White House official said.the dead. As president, however, his eulogies have taken on a new dimension.
Indeed, Biden has woven his recent eulogies with familiar political rhetoric about democracy, autocracy, dignity, the importance of consensus, and the future of the country. “You know, in the battle for the soul of America today, John Warner is a reminder of what we can do when we come together as one nation,” Biden said last June.
In December while paying tribute to Dole, Biden said that the longtime Kansas senator had become “deeply concerned about the threat to American democracy, not from foreign nations but from the divisions tearing us apart from within.” For Albright, he placed her story in the context of NATO and autocracies. And he said Reid “knew better than most how difficult democracy is — that the idea of America itself is under attack from dark and deepening forces, that we’re in a battle for the soul of America.”
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