President Biden shared a personal detail from a private conversation with former President Jimmy Carter, concerning his health and a wish for his funeral.
accidentally revealed a previously unknown detail about former President Carter’s health toward the end of a speech Monday evening, before admitting he"should not have said that."
He also implied the former president’s cancer had returned. These remarks were not recorded as video was not allowed.The comments came as Biden was discussing breakthroughs in cancer treatment and urging the dozens of people in the room to increase funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health , an initiative Biden created last year to improve the government’s ability to speed biomedical and health research.
It would pursue"ideas so bold no one else, not even the private sector, is willing to give them a chance or to sink a lot of money into trying to solve," he said at the time, according to its website. Sen. Joseph Biden points out a friend in the crowd at the Padua Academy to President Carter during a fundraiser."I think the American public has moved to a place where they're genuinely worried about our democracy," Biden said, saying it was"not a joke. It's not hyperbole."
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