5/23/2023 0 Comments Winter of Peril by Jan Andrews![]() ![]() It was also used by his late son, Beau Biden, when he was sworn in as attorney general of Delaware in 2007. Just before noon, the oldest US president ever elected was sworn in on a 19th-century Bible: five inches thick with a Celtic cross the cover, it has been in his family since 1893. The quintessentially moderate, middle-of-the-road candidate might go down as radical and transformational because that is what the moment demands. ![]() It is also his good fortune to have no alternative but to think big and aim high. Now it is Biden’s great misfortune to have realised, at 78 years old, a lifetime ambition at a moment of what he called “the cascading crises of our era”. ![]() That winter of peril includes a raging pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans and a fraying body politic: two weeks after a mob encouraged by Donald Trump sacked the Capitol, this could no longer be described as a peaceful transfer of power. ![]() “We will press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and possibility,” Biden told the audience at the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, as the sun finally broke through clouds that had brought fleeting snow. ![]()
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