Former Vice President Biden targets Trump in ‘battle of soul of the nation’
Former President Joseph Biden during a reception hosted by Torrance Memorial Medical Center at the Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach, prior to his Distinguished Speaker Series speech at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Photo by Deidre Davidson Former Vice President Joseph Biden looks to Watergate for answers in the “battle for the soul of the nation” Editor’s note: The following story is reposted from Nov. 7, 2017 Shortly after being elected to represent Delaware in the U.S. Senate in 1972, Joe Biden watched Senator Jesse Helms excoriate fellow Republican Senator Bob Dole and Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy on the Senate floor for their support of equal rights for the disabled. Helms contended it was “confiscatory” to require small businesses to accommodate handicapped people with ramps and special bathrooms. “How can Helms be so heartless?” the 30-year-old Biden asked fellow Democrat Mike Mansfield when the two met in the Senate Leader’s office later that day. Mansfield told Biden that in 1963 Helms and his wife Dot saw a photograph in the Raleigh News of a 14-year-old boy with leg braces. He needed a home, so the Helms adopted him. “Do you still think Helms is heartless?”…
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