At White House, It’s Biden Everywhere After a Memoir’s Lashing
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, NYT
JAN. 8, 2014
WASHINGTON — Wednesday was Joe Biden day at the White House.
Less than 24 hours after a new book by former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates described Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” White House officials went out of their way to praise Mr. Biden and extravagantly advertise his presence in the West Wing.
As listed on the official White House schedule emailed to important inboxes across Washington, Mr. Biden was in the Oval Office for the president’s morning briefing, in the Situation Room for a discussion about national security leaks, back in the Situation Room for a meeting with intelligence officials and, later, in the Oval Office yet again with Mr. Obama and the secretary of state.
And for the first time since the Obama presidency began, the White House allowed photographers on Wednesday to take pictures of the vice president’s weekly lunch with Mr. Obama. Although Mr. Biden regularly attends Oval Office and Situation Room meetings, it is unusual for the White House to broadcast so publicly that Mr. Biden was at the president’s side for most of the day.
(More here.)
JAN. 8, 2014
WASHINGTON — Wednesday was Joe Biden day at the White House.
Less than 24 hours after a new book by former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates described Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” White House officials went out of their way to praise Mr. Biden and extravagantly advertise his presence in the West Wing.
As listed on the official White House schedule emailed to important inboxes across Washington, Mr. Biden was in the Oval Office for the president’s morning briefing, in the Situation Room for a discussion about national security leaks, back in the Situation Room for a meeting with intelligence officials and, later, in the Oval Office yet again with Mr. Obama and the secretary of state.
And for the first time since the Obama presidency began, the White House allowed photographers on Wednesday to take pictures of the vice president’s weekly lunch with Mr. Obama. Although Mr. Biden regularly attends Oval Office and Situation Room meetings, it is unusual for the White House to broadcast so publicly that Mr. Biden was at the president’s side for most of the day.
(More here.)
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