It was in October 2015, in the studio of CBS "Late Show" comedian Steve Colbert, at the start of the presidential campaign that would see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clash a year later. Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, head receding, but still looking good and not sure, had entered the enthusiastic applause of the public, who wondered if he could still start the race for the presidency . Many hoped so, sensing the degree of natural antipathy that aroused Hillary Clinton, and her difficulties in connecting.
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But the brutal death of Biden's eldest son, Beau, who died of cancer in the previous June, raised serious doubts. Biden, already struck by the tragedy in 1972, when he lost his wife and little daughter in a car accident, remaining alone with his 4 and 2 year old sons, was devastated by this new stroke of fate. Would he have the courage to respond to Beau's injunction, who on his deathbed,
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