First lady Jill Biden said she had become a “full” member of the family after Joe Biden had two brain aneurysms in 1988 and took a bigger role in family decisions, a new book details.
“She was exhausted. At the hospital, as she watched Joe’s mother, sister and brothers debate the best path forward for Joe’s treatment, something inside her broke,” says one upcoming book titled “American Woman,” portraying Jill Biden as the future. The president underwent medical treatment at Walter Reed in 1988 for brain aneurysms.
“‘Wait a minute!’ ” she shouted to the group. ‘It is my husband. I should be the one making the decision here.’”
The moment, highlighted by Joe’s mother urging the family to listen to Jill, marked the moment when Jill Biden said she felt she had “become a full-fledged Biden,” the book details.
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First Lady Jill Biden (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
“The Bidens were stunned, until Joe’s mother finally agreed: ‘She’s right,’ Jean Biden told the group, settling the matter. That’s when, as Jill l ‘ said, she felt she had become a full-fledged Biden.”
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“American Woman”, written by the New York Times White House Correspondent Katie Rogers, will be released Tuesday and documents the evolving role of first lady in the 21st century, focusing on Jill Biden’s tenure in the White House.
Joe and Jill Biden married in 1977, following the death of the future president’s first wife and their young daughter in a car accident in 1972. Biden had two more children with his first wife, Beau and Hunter, who were later raised by Jill Biden alongside their younger half-sister, Ashley Biden.
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Joe Biden and his wife Neilia cut his 30th birthday cake at a party in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 20, 1972. His son, Hunter, is waiting for the first piece. (Getty Images)
As a senator from Delaware, Biden had two life-threatening brain aneurysms, and doctors said he had a 50-50 chance of survival.
“If he survived, there was a chance that the part of his brain that governed his speech would be damaged,” the book continues.
“For Jill, the diagnosis was the latest setback after a stressful year. She had spent months campaigning on her behalf, despite her discomfort with public speaking. She was raising their three children, Beau, Hunter and Ashley, all of whom were in different conditions.stages of adaptation to school and life in Delaware.
Jill Biden became the “powerful gatekeeper of Biden’s inner circle,” the book “American Woman” reports. (Julia Nikhinson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Biden’s surgeries were successful, without reports of an aneurysm since.
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After Jill Biden experienced the watershed moment of becoming a “full” member of the familyshe became the “powerful gatekeeper of Biden’s inner circle,” the book describes.
“As the president and his last surviving son, Hunter, have become targets for conservatives in a rapidly toxic political landscape, Jill has become the powerful gatekeeper of Biden’s inner circle, defining herself as a “Philadelphia girl” who doesn’t must not be crossed,” the book states.
President Biden speaks at the United Auto Workers union conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC, January 24, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The book goes on to point out that Jill Biden was one of the main forces behind Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, which is driven in part by a “dislike of Trump.”
“She is powerful within the Biden White House and enthusiastically supported her husband’s decision to announce his re-election at age eighty,” notes “American Woman.”
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“His dislike of Trump was one of the main reasons for his support of Joe’s presidential campaign, and it remains that way for his re-election bid, even if it means he won’t leave office until he’s eighty-six years at the end of a second term, “the book later states.
