Título: Joe Biden
Seção: Characteristics as senator
Background: Biden was born on November 20, 1942, at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (nee Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Sr. He was the first of four siblings in a Catholic family, with a sister, Valerie, and two brothers, James and Frank, following. His mother was of Irish descent, with roots variously attributed to County Louth or County Londonderry. His paternal grandparents, Mary Elizabeth (Robinette) and Joseph H. Biden, an oil businessman from Baltimore, Maryland, were of English, French, and Irish ancestry.

Conteúdo: On August 27, 1966, while Biden was still a law student, he married Neilia Hunter. They overcame her parents' initial reluctance for her to wed a Roman Catholic, and the ceremony was held in a Catholic church in Skaneateles. They had three children, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III in 1969, Robert Hunter in 1970, and Naomi Christina in 1971.  During 1968, Biden clerked for six months at a Wilmington law firm headed by prominent local Republican William Prickett and, as he later said, "thought of myself as a Republican". He disliked the conservative racial politics of incumbent Democratic Governor of Delaware Charles L. Terry and supported a more liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who defeated Terry in 1968. The local Republicans tried to recruit him, but he resisted due to his distaste for Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon, and registered as an Independent instead.  In 1969, Biden resumed practicing law in Wilmington, first as a public defender and then at a firm headed by Sid Balick, a locally active Democrat. Balick named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying to reform and revitalize the state party, and Biden switched his registration to Democrat. He also started his own firm, Biden and Walsh. Corporate law, however, did not appeal to him and criminal law did not pay well. He supplemented his income by managing properties.  Later in 1969, Biden ran as a Democrat for the New Castle County Council on a liberal platform that included support for public hou

user: What are Joe's characteristics as senator?

assistant: characterized Biden as "self-confident" and "compulsively ambitious".

user: Was Joe likable as senator?

assistant: "Biden is the kind of fundamentally happy person who can be as generous toward others as he is to himself."

user: Does Joe have a lot of friends in politics?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: When did he become senator?

assistant: 1969,

user: What State was he the Senator for?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Did he get re-elected as senator?

assistant: Biden was re-elected

user: Does his peers have good things to say about him?

assistant: he's a great street pol.

user: When did he get re-elected?

assistant: 1978,

user: Has he ever faced any criticism?

assistant: The New York Times writes that Biden's "weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything".

user: Has anyone else said any criticisms of him?

assistant: journalist James Traub has written that "Biden's vanity and his regard for his own gifts seem considerable even by the rarefied standards of the U.S. Senate."

user: What else is interesting about him?

assistant: He has been a strong speaker and debater and a frequent and effective guest on the Sunday morning talk shows.