“I want someone with white hair. “Careers policies are sometimes due to a little thing. This request, addressed by Barack Obama to his campaign team in the spring of 2008, has revived that of Joe Biden. At the time, the senator from Delaware grieves in his office at the Capitol. A few months earlier, he was ending his campaign for the democratic nomination after a rout in Iowa. Then, when he is made to know that he is the favorite to be on the “ticket” of the young, ambitious Obama, he thanked his long experience, his wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and his fleece…

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