For History, a Special Substitute Teacher
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. brought his 11-year-old granddaughter, Finnegan, with him for his three-day trip through Eastern Europe and gave her some first-hand lessons in modern diplomacy and Cold War history.
Finnegan and her mother, Kathleen Biden, the wife of the vice president’s son, Hunter, have spent much of the last couple days touring museums, memorials and historic sites in Warsaw, Bucharest and now Prague. They have also been at some of the vice president’s official events as he tried to reassure the region of American support.
Mr. Biden took them on Wednesday to a memorial commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto uprising when Polish Jews tried to fight back against Nazi occupiers in 1943. And the vice president took them Thursday night to the Old New Synagogue and later the Charles Bridge here in Prague, where he regaled them with a story of his own Cold War encounter 30 years ago...
... The vice president said he brought his granddaughter, just as he did his own son when he was younger, to give her a sense of the bold achievement of a region that threw off Communism 20 years ago...
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Finnegan and her mother, Kathleen Biden, the wife of the vice president’s son, Hunter, have spent much of the last couple days touring museums, memorials and historic sites in Warsaw, Bucharest and now Prague. They have also been at some of the vice president’s official events as he tried to reassure the region of American support.
Mr. Biden took them on Wednesday to a memorial commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto uprising when Polish Jews tried to fight back against Nazi occupiers in 1943. And the vice president took them Thursday night to the Old New Synagogue and later the Charles Bridge here in Prague, where he regaled them with a story of his own Cold War encounter 30 years ago...
... The vice president said he brought his granddaughter, just as he did his own son when he was younger, to give her a sense of the bold achievement of a region that threw off Communism 20 years ago...