State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.

Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.