Joe & Jill ‘WE SHARE EACH OTHER’S DREAMS’
With his presidency just seven and a half days old, Joe Biden had already put his signature to 37 executive orders – on everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to the climate crisis to transgender rights – when he strode into the White House Blue Room practically vibrating with the urgency of all he plans to do. “How long is this going to take?” he asked. “I need to get back to the Oval.”
Only when Biden, 78, sat down beside his wife, Jill, did he seem to exhale, taking a pause from the nation’s crises to get misty-eyed about his grandchildren and his “surreal” return to a building he frequented over the course of his 44 years in public office – first as a US senator from Delaware, then as President Barack Obama’s Vice President – but now calls home. Some things are just as the Bidens remembered, starting with Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden. “The garden is going strong!” the First Lady, 69, reported.
And Jill, who goes by Dr Biden – Dr B to her students – is back to teaching English at Northern Virginia Community College (over Zoom for now). Other things are very different in the White House the Bidens moved in to only hours after the Trumps vacated on January 20. One sweet change: there is now a crib in the family quarters for Hunter Biden’s baby son Beau.
In their first interview as President and First Lady, edited here for space, the Bidens shared the “magic” of their first days in the White
