Author:Joseph Robinette Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
(1942–)

Official portrait, 2021

Works

As U.S. senator

• Toward Enlightened Nationalism (28 October 2003)
• Address to the People's Congress of Libya (3 March 2004)
• The Purpose of American Power (12 April 2005)
• A New Compact for Iraq (21 June 2005)
• America's Purpose: Leadership for a New Security Consensus (6 September 2005)
• Turning the Corner in Iraq (21 November 2005)
• On the Genocide in Darfur (17 February 2006)
• On NSA Wiretapping (16 March 2006)
• Commencement Address at Syracuse University, College of Law (21 May 2006)
• National Security and Civil Rights (3 April 2007)
• Remarks to the National Governors Association (2 December 2008)

2008 campaign debates and speeches

• VP Nomination Acceptance Speech (27 August 2008)

As vice president

• Press conference announcing national security team (1 December 2008) with Barack Obama, et al.
• The Change.gov Agenda (3 December 2008) with Barack Obama
• Statement on meeting with the Vice-President and Secretary of the Treasury (29 January 2009) with Barack Obama
• Remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy (7 February 2009)
• Remarks on infrastructure investment (11 February 2009)
• The Good of the Nation (17 February 2009)
• To Imagine the Unexpected (18 February 2009)
• Work for Our People (19 February 2009)
• Statement Following Meeting with Al Franken (6 May 2009)
• Letter from Vice President Biden to Ken and Dakota Bihn (27 January 2010)
• It Gets Better (17 November 2010)
• Acting on This Moral Obligation (16 January 2013)

Middle Class Working Families Task Force

Biden served as chairman of the White House task force since its inception in 2009.

• Middle Class Working Families Task Force (30 January 2009)
• Time to put middle class front and center (30 January 2009)
• First Meeting, Panel One (27 February 2009)
• Green jobs are a way to aid the middle class (27 February 2009)
• Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class (27 February 2009)

Weekly addresses

As Vice President, Biden filled in for Barack Obama to deliver several weekly addresses:

• "Restore the American Dream" (4 December 2010)
• "A Single Act of Kindness" (28 May 2011)
• "Increase the Pace" (5 November 2011)
• "Deserve Enough Pay" (29 March 2014)
• "Given a Fair Shot" (6 September 2014)
• "Pleased and Excited" (3 January 2015)
• "Crisis to Recovery" (11 April 2015)
• "We Stand as One" (21 November 2015)
• "The Courage of Our Actions" (9 July 2016)
• "The Defining Difference" (30 July 2016) along with Timothy K. Lewis
• "The Ones We Can Save" (29 October 2016)
• "The Immense Possibilities" (19 November 2016)

Biden′s presidential addresses are listed separately.

As president

• Administrative orders
• Call readouts
• Executive orders
• Fact sheets
  • American Jobs Plan fact sheets
  • American Rescue Plan fact sheets
• Joint Statements, Communiques, MOUs, and Declarations with foreign Heads of State
• Letters
• Miscellaneous
• National security directives
• Presidential determinations
• Presidential memoranda
• Presidential notices
• Proclamations
• Speeches and Remarks
• Statements and releases
  • Disaster declarations
  • Nominations
  • Statements of administration policy
  • Unclassified annexes
• Weekly addresses

Works about Biden

Mentioned by President Obama

Barack Obama has mentioned Biden in multiple speeches and addresses:

• Election Night Speech in Chicago (4 November 2008)
• President-elect press conference (7 November 2008)
• Meet the Press (7 December 2008) with Tom Brokaw
• Welcoming Senior Staff and Cabinet Secretaries to the White House (21 January 2009)
• Middle Class Working Families Task Force (30 January 2009)
• My Hope, My Prayer (5 February 2009)
• Presidential Press Conference (9 February 2009)
• A Destiny of Our Own Making (17 February 2009)
• Having an Honest Debate (23 February 2009)
• The Face of This Nation (3 March 2009)
• Part of the Solution (3 March 2009)
• We Will Continue Our Journey Forward (6 November 2012)
• There Is a Path Forward (1 January 2013)
• The Most Vulnerable Among Us (16 January 2013)
• Fifth State of the Union (12 February 2013)
• Farewell Address (10 January 2017)

Mentioned by others

• Could Clinton Email Flap Signal Political Trouble? (6 March 2015) by Jim Malone
• Letter to Chairman Burr and Chairman Schiff (12 August 2019) by anonymous CIA officer
• Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States/Article I (13 December 2019) by U.S. House Judiciary Committee
• Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States/Dissenting Views (13 December 2019) by U.S. House Judiciary Committee
• Letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (17 December 2019) by Donald J. Trump
• Summary of CHS's meeting with executives of Burisma Holdings (June 30, 2020) by a confidential human source of the Federal Bureau of Investigation