Richard Nixon Calls Joe Biden
Republican President Richard Nixon's reelection was confirmed, manned Moon missions ended, and the #US began dropping more bombs over North Vietnam than any time since World War II, all within 24 hours over December 18-19, 1972.
Still, Nixon took time at 12:21 p.m. on #December 19 to call the junior Democratic senator-elect who was just 29 when he won the #Delaware seat a month earlier.
#JoeBiden.
Nixon called to console Biden over the deaths of his wife and daughter in a car crash a day earlier, and to congratulate him for a stunning upset over incumbent Republican J. Caleb Boggs, a close Nixon ally.
The exchange resonates today as a lesson in graciousness, character and bipartisanship, political historians say.
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