I saw Biden cry in Manchester, N.H., in October when holding an infant that he was told was named after Beau. “It falls in that category,” Biden told me. “We have no freakin’ idea what he’s gonna do.”When they were Senate colleagues, and Biden was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Biden thought Obama was in too much of a hurry — and Obama found the chairman a tad condescending. “There was never a point,” Obama told me recently, “where I thought he was distancing himself from me or positioning himself. “Family has been central for us — that’s our baseline,” Obama told me.

Source: New York Times January 17, 2017 10:00 UTC