When President Barack Obama last week wrapped Vice President Biden in a bear hug after his Farewell Address and followed up with surprise Presidential Medal of Freedom, anyone watching could tell the two men weren’t faking it. So ends the closest and longest-lasting partnership between a president and vice-president in American history—one with crossed signals, raw emotional exchanges and even little-known secret codes that, as Obama told me recently, shaped policy-making in the Situation Room.That partnership began with candidate Obama’s promise to a man 19 years his senior that if he joined the ticket in 2008 he would be “the …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
