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...Pont, 52, insists that his heavyweight name has no real bearing on his campaign. It is an irresistible angle for journalists, he admits, and the patrician roman numeral provides an easy stereotype. Du Pont is astute enough to ban reporters from his elegant home near Wilmington and his sprawling summer house in Maine, but he knows he cannot really bury his privileged background. "I am what I am. I can't change it, so I don't worry about...
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...four years as an indifferent student at the University of Delaware. In fact, he now acknowledges that he participated in desegregation demonstrations "only in a very minor sense": black lifeguards at the swimming pool where he worked during the summer invited him to join in some picketing in Wilmington. Later, as a law student at Syracuse University, Biden avoided antiwar protests...
...lawyer in Wilmington, Biden flirted with the moderate G.O.P. establishment while clerking for a Republican firm. "I thought of myself as a Republican for six or seven months, no longer," he says. He quickly found more stimulating work as an assistant to a Democratic activist who specialized in criminal and negligence cases. In 1970, just two years out of law school, Biden ran successfully as an underdog candidate for the local county council. Even before he took his council seat, he was planning his next campaign, against Caleb Boggs, Delaware's Republican Senator who was generally regarded as unbeatable. After...
...weeks later his world was shattered. On a highway near Wilmington, a truck collided with the family station wagon, killing his wife Neilia, 27, and daughter Naomi, 13 months. His two sons, Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, were critically injured. Rushing back from Washington, where he had been recruiting staff, Biden considered resigning. Instead, his sister Valerie and her husband moved into his house to care for the boys, and Biden began to commute daily between Wilmington and Washington by train, 90 minutes each way. The difficult routine became so much a hallmark of his Senate career that Biden chose...