Watch: President Biden, first lady meet Queen Elizabeth II The Queen has met her 13th US president after she welcomed Joe and Jill Biden to Windsor Castle for tea on Sunday afternoon. The Queen briefly met the couple on Friday evening in Cornwall as part of a reception the Royal Family held for world leaders, but was able to sit down with them for longer during afternoon tea. After arriving at the castle, the Bidens were greeted by the Queen on the dais at the Quadrangle where a Guard of Honour… Source link
Read More »As first lady, Jill Biden plans to push for debt-free community college
WASHINGTON — Dr. Jill Biden has devoted her life to the field of education, and that won’t change when she becomes first lady next month. According to a source close to her, Biden will advocate for debt-free community college. Dr. Martha Kanter, who served as under secretary of education in the Obama administration and who has known Biden for more than a decade, said she has worked hard to make debt-free community college a reality. “That is what she would like to see. We have often… Source link
Read More »Jill Biden, Joe’s chief protector, to step up as first lady
WASHINGTON (AP) — She’s fended off protesters who made a run at her husband. She’s moved him farther from reporters during the coronavirus pandemic. She’s supported his presidential ambitions again and again — except in 2004, when she deployed a novel messaging technique to keep Joe Biden from running. “No,” Jill Biden, then clad in a bikini, wrote in Sharpie across her stomach and then marched through a strategy session in which advisers were trying to talk her husband into… Source link
Read More »By keeping her teaching job, Jill Biden will make first-lady history
After the Bidens move into the White House in January, Dr. Jill Biden will continue to teach English at North Virginia Community College, becoming the first presidential spouse to keep their day job and commute to work, The New York Times reports. “Dr. Biden is focused on building her team and developing her priorities focused on education, military families and veterans, and cancer,” her spokesman, Michael LaRosa, told the Times. She has worked at North Virginia Community College for a… Source link
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