Shortly after the crash, then-President Richard Nixon called Joe Biden, according to a recording at Nixon's presidential library. Hunter Biden appears to be the first child of.

Their dad took his oath as a senator by their hospital bedsides. His son Beau Biden died in 2015 of cancer and his daughter Naomi Biden died as an infant after a car accident that also killed Joe Biden's first wife. 'And my two boys, but for the jaws of life and a rescue crew saving their life, would not have been around either.'īeau and Hunter Biden were seriously injured after the wreck. 'My wife was killed and my daughter was killed,' he continued then. Mr Biden had three children with his first wife, Neilia Biden, whom he married in 1966. A tractor trailer hit your wife and your three children while they were shopping,'' Biden recalled at an event in Newton, Iowa, during his 2020 campaign. She was so nervous, she said, 'You gotta come home. They put a pretty young woman on the phone. 'I was down in Washington hiring staff and I got a phone call from a first responder. The 1972 crash, weeks after he won his first Senate race, also partially defined his career in Congress. The death of Joe Biden's wife, daughter and older son have long shaped his approach to grief and empathy, he has said.

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