President Biden told Americans that “we must bring the nation together” when he called for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday.
“On this Thanksgiving, Al, we need to come together,” Mr. Biden told Al Roker. “You know, we have – we may have different political opinions, but there is – we have one point of view. The only point of view is that we are the best and greatest nation in the world.”
Mr. Biden went on to say that “we should focus on solving our problems and being together.”
“And stop the hard feelings,” Mr. Biden added. “We need to bring the nation together and we need to treat each other with some decency.”
Mr. Biden and his family are spend thanksgiving in Nantucket, Massachusetts, by their family’s tradition.
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After calling Roker, Mr. Biden and the first lady went to the Nantucket fire station, where they brought five pumpkin pies. Speaking to reporters at the fire station, Mr. Biden declined to comment on the situation. delay in transaction to release dozens of Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of some 150 Palestinian prisoners. He said he was “not ready to give you any news” until the deal was “done.” He said he hoped to be able to say more on Friday.
The Bidens’ granddaughter, Naomi, Hunter Biden’s daughter, published on social networks a photo of some family members, including Mr. Biden, at the beach after participating in the polar bear dive.
Jill Biden wrote in her memoir, “Where the Light Enters,” that the family began spending Thanksgiving on Nantucket when she and Mr. Biden began dating.
“Nantucket Thanksgiving became our tradition for the next four decades,” Jill wrote. “With a few exceptions, we have made the trip every year since, creating rituals that would become a key part of our family along the way.”
The Bidens’ late son, Beau Biden, proposed to his wife Hallie at the 2001 Nantucket annual tree lighting, which takes place on Thanksgiving weekend, and they were married at St. Mary’s Church , in downtown Nantucket.
Jill Biden wrote that the family skipped Nantucket in 2015, the first Thanksgiving after Beau’s death. But she said the following year, their grandchildren asked to return to Nantucket.
“Thanksgiving was Nantucket,” she wrote. Biden’s grandchildren “missed the little shops, the ice cream parlor we always visited, the traditional Friday lunch. They wanted to watch the Christmas tree lighting and walk the cobblestone streets. They wanted to be together. Se feel normal again.”
According to Mr. Biden’s memoir, “Promise Me, Dad,” Nantucket is where Beau and his youngest son Hunter told him in 2014 to run for president.
“’Dad, you need to run,’” Mr. Biden wrote that Beau told him, and he wrote that Hunter said, “’We want you to run.’”
Beau Biden died in May 2015and Mr. Biden ultimately chose not to run for president in 2016 amid family tragedy.
This year, the Bidens are staying with billionaire David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group.
