7 Facts you dont Know About Joe Biden, The President of the United States

Joe Biden is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and a member of the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

Here are 7 facts you might not know about the United State president

#1. Joe Bidden stuttered as a child: Growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden has said he suffered merciless bullying over a “debilitating” childhood stutter. “I can think of nothing else that has ever stripped me of my dignity as quickly and as profoundly and as thoroughly as when I stuttered in grade school,” he said in a 2008 speech to the American Institute for Stuttering.

Biden further explained that he overcame the stutter by reading and reciting Irish poems, including those by William Butler Yeats, in front of a mirror to monitor and control his facial distortions. To this day, he can still recite long passages of Irish poetry from memory.

#2. He was drafted for the Vietnam War but failed the medical: Born in November 1942, Biden came of age amid the Vietnam War. But unlike millions of men of his generation, he never served in the military. He received five student draft deferments, first as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University. According to reports, he was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager.

#3. He suffered a family tragedy: Mr Biden lost his first wife Neilia and baby daughter Naomi in a car accident in 1972. His two sons Beau and Hunter were also in the vehicle but survived. His oldest son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.

#4. Biden was sworn into the United States Senate in a hospital: following the Family tragedy that struck him in December 1972, Biden, who was the newly elected United States Senator was sworn into office in January 1973 at the bedsides of sons Beau and Hunter, who were badly injured in the crash. Then 30 years old, Biden was one of the youngest senators to be elected, though he’d considered stepping down following the tragedy.

Majority Leader Mike Mansfield eventually convinced him to reconsider, and the Senate passed a resolution allowing him to be sworn in at the Delaware hospital

#5. Biden is the oldest president ever inaugurated in the United State:  Biden who turned 78 last November addressed his age head-on in interviews and presented himself as a “transition candidate” who would help nurture new Democratic talent. “It’s a legitimate question to ask about my age,” Biden said on “The View,” adding, “Hopefully, demonstrate not only with age has come wisdom and experience that can make things a lot better.”

Biden displaced Ronald Reagan as America’s oldest commander-in-chief when he is sworn in as president on January 20, 2021. Mr. Reagan left the White House in 1989 aged 77 years and 349 days old.

#6. Biden ran for president twice before his victory in 2020: He first ran for president in 1987 and in 2008. He dropped his first presidential bid due to a scandal that plagued his campaign after a video surfaced of Biden giving a speech at the Iowa State Fair in which he quoted U.K. Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock without attribution.

He also dropped out of the presidential bid in 2008 and became the running mate for Barack Obama.

#7. He’s a practising Catholic: Once inaugurated, Biden, who carries Beau’s rosary in his pocket and regularly attends Sunday Mass, will become the United States’ second Catholic president after John F. Kennedy. During his November 2020 presidential victory speech, he referenced the Catholic hymn “On Eagle’s Wings,” which he said was important to his family and his late son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015.