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Joe Biden's bathroom mirror messages
by Mark Silva
When Jill Biden wants to get the vice president's attention on an important political issue she tapes a message to the bathroom mirror at the Naval Observatory mansion.
" If I want him to get my position on something, I Scotch Tape it to the bathroom mirror,'' Jill Biden, the second lady, says in an interview airing on CBS News' Sunday Morning.
"Not a joke,'' the vice president says in the interview. " You go into my bathroom at home... or in the vice president's residence...and it'll be up -- literally she'll Scotch Tape an article. She'll Scotch Tape something. ''
Jill Biden, who sits with CBS correspondent Rita Braver for an interview airing Sunday, speaks of life with Joe Biden and balancing her roles as an English teacher in Virginia and wife of the vice president. There's more to the official role than playing "nice.''
"Nice is blah, it's just too bland,'' she says. "So I never want to be nice.''
(See the former first lady's take on "nice,'' in the photo with the current second lady at the State Dinner, above, by Charles Dharapak / )
At the community college where she teaches English to speakers of other languages, she has a cubicle"because I think it's important that they see me as their English teacher...
"One day, I was teaching my class and then I had to go to the White House right after, so literally, I took my dress to school. After my classes I went into the ladies room, changed into my outfit, got into the car... went to the White House ... So there are real, you know, Superman moments.''
Biden also recalls meeting her husband, who had lost his first wife and young daughter in an automobile accident. And the vice president, who served in the Senate for more than 30 years and rode the train home each night to Delaware to be with his children, recalls meeting his second wife in the CBS interview.
His brother Frank said, " know this beautiful girl... you'll love her.. She was in my English class and she hates politics, you'll love her.''
Jill Biden says of the then-senator: "I found him interesting, and charming...as he is. And he shook my hand good night...and that was so different from...
"He didn't try to grab you...'' Braver asks, bravely.
" No, no. And at one o'clock in the morning, I called my mother and I said, 'Mom, I finally met a gentleman'.... And that's what hooked me. That's what hooked me.'''
The senator's sons suggested the marriage, he says.
"Swear to God, swear to God... true story,'' the vice president says. " didn't have the heart to tell them I'd already asked her and she said no.... I had to ask her five times.''
Why no?
" Because here were these little boys who had lost their mom and their sister, and I had to make sure that this marriage was gonna work,'' Jill Biden tells Braver, "and because...I just couldn't have their hearts broken again.''
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