![]() ![]() And there's this tradition I don't know where the hell it came from in our family, we said, if you want someone - look at me, Dad, and he pointed, said look at me, Dad. And anyway, he said to his wife, would you put the kids to bed? I want to talk to Dad. He wasn't in the hospital bed, but he was it was clear what the diagnosis read. Jill and I went home on a Friday night to see Beau. 'Well, I'll tell you exactly what happened. I mean, I was I really think, Anderson, I think there's a lot of heroes who get up every morning, put one foot in front in the other and don't know how the hell they do it. I think the upside of going through what I went through is making me realize that there's so many people out there who've gone through so damn much and they have none of the kind of help I had. And so it turned out to be a great gift for me that I stuttered. But I realized it was a great lesson I learned because everybody has something they can't fully control, everybody. Having to read aloud at school or those kinds of things were really hard. ![]() And I used to hate the fact I stuttered, it was - tighten me up so much. When I was a kid, I stuttered badly t-t-t-talk-talk like-like that. ![]() I find myself focusing on the things - probably the best thing that's ever happened to me was one of the worst things. 'Well, that would be presumptuous of me to say better or worse but I'm slightly different. His young sons, Beau and Hunter, were badly injured. President Biden's first wife, Neilia, and their 13 month old daughter Naomi, were killed in a car crash in 1972. His three year old daughter, Robin, died of leukemia in 1953. Both Roosevelts experienced the deaths of children, as did Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Kennedy also lost a son while serving as president, a newborn named Patrick, who only lived about 39 hours. His 11-year-old Willie died in the White House, likely of typhoid. Jefferson was said to have carried a lock of hair belonging to one of his deceased daughters all his life. John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson all lost four of their kids. More than 15 US presidents have lost children. He isn't the only president, of course, to have experienced terrible tragedy, but none have been willing to share so much about it publicly, particularly when they were in office. He's been so public about the pain of loss he's experienced and he's managed to stay engaged in the world. There's one reason I wanted to talk with President Biden. 'I think he's absolutely right, and it does feel intolerable. ![]()
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