Jill Biden is on the verge for her husband last October. AP=Yonhap News
“uh? Why is my professor on TV? Besides (Michel) Are you sitting next to Obama?”
Michaela Stack, who studied abroad from Sweden to Northern Virginia College (NOVA) in the U.S., mumbled more than a live broadcast of the then-president Barack Obama’s presentation of the Yondu text in Congress in 2014. Stack’s professor said he was the wife of Vice President Jill Biden at the time, but he didn’t know it because he didn’t show off at school. Stack recently told the Washington Post (WP) that Mrs. Jill Biden was “not very tall, a blonde lady and only known as a very well dressed professor.” Stack immediately went through his syllabus for’How to Write in English’ and shouted: “Oh my God, my professor is the Second Lady of America.”
It is also because Stacke wasn’t familiar with American politics yet, but it also proves that Mrs. Biden was so reluctant to reveal her identity. Mrs. Biden will become a First Lady at Second Lady on the 20th (local time), and declared that she will not quit her teaching position. It is recorded as the first’two-job’ first lady in the history of the United States.
Mrs. Biden did not give up teaching even during the Second Lady, and said in a speech to a student at the time, WP said.
“I’ve been an educator my whole life, and I couldn’t give up on that career. I couldn’t just move to Washington, DC to live the life of (husband) Joe.”
Jill Biden holds the hand of Biden-elect, who is taking the lead in vaccination last December. AFP=Yonhap News
Instead, Biden asked the school to write only “Doctor B” on the document, and even took steps such as writing “School faculty will be on the way” in the syllabus. This was to block students from focusing on their own lectures or attracting attention for reasons other than the contents of the lecture.
It is said that he was a teacher who became a model for students. “When I first met Biden as a teacher in 1988, I hated the subject of English,” said Yolanda McCoy, a current councilor in Wilmington, Delaware. Said in WP commented, “Mrs. Biden has always done more than her mission and is remembered as an educator on the side of the students.”
Mrs. Jill Biden, who has been making frequent visits to the education field to make use of her job. The picture is from a visit to a school in Wilmington last September. It says “Welcome, Dr. Biden” on the board. Reuters = Yonhap News
Jill Biden is a reliable companion to her husband, Joe Biden, who will be sworn in on the 20th. Joe Biden sometimes describes herself as “Jill Biden’s husband.” He added that his wife is better than himself.
Joe Biden lost his first wife, Nelia, in a car accident in 1972. Nelia, who was also an educator, was at the age of thirty. My daughter Naomi, who was a newborn baby, died immediately. Their sons, Dulbo and Hunter, survived, but Boo died from a brain tumor in 2015. It was Jill Biden who helped support this twisting family history. The two married in 1977. Jill Biden is also remarried. The AP reported that “Jill Biden’s sense of humor has been a great help to Joe Biden,” the AP reported.
The Biden couple dances at a ball held after the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009. AP=Yonhap News
In August of last year, Jill Biden stood on the podium for her husband at the Democratic National Party Congress and gave a powerful speech as “the best person to get through the difficult times that the United States is currently experiencing.” Using his career as an educator at the time, he was applauded by saying, “If my husband becomes president, the American classroom will be filled with laughter again.”
About Jill Biden, pro-Democratic media such as The New York Times (NYT) and WP use the title of’Dr. Biden’. This is a reaction against the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) posting an external contribution in December of last year, stating that it is not correct to use the title of’doctoral’ without being a doctor. The article criticized not only the Democratic Party, but also the women’s world, saying, “This article appeared even though Mrs. Biden has a doctorate degree, discrimination against women.” Mrs. Biden holds a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware.
WP said on the 20th, “People always have a distorted view of highly educated women, so Mrs. Biden is on a difficult path as a first lady.” In particular, the role of Jill Biden as a first lady with a separate job is noted. WP predicted that “past First Lady emphasized the role of’mother and wife’, but Mrs. Biden will write a new history of First Lady.”
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