Jill Biden must have been extremely busy this year.
The first lady says she took on a “healing role” amid her husband’s calamitous and disaster-filled first year in the White House as his administration and the nation were battered by the coronavirus pandemic, natural disasters and a deep divide over President Biden’s abilities to lead.
A person who just received a COVID-19 vaccination is comforted by Jill Biden at Jackson State University in Mississippi, on June 22, 2021.Biden said she sees those visits as a “prime example” of the responsibility she feels as first lady and a way to provide comfort to Americans at a difficult time in their lives.
President Biden and Jill Biden embrace before boarding Marine One to visit wounded troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.Biden, 70, carries out her first lady duties while teaching writing full-time at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has taught since 2009.
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