Clintons to attend Beau Biden’s funeral
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton will attend the Saturday funeral mass for Vice President Biden’s son, Beau Biden, an aide confirmed to The Hill.
Hillary Clinton and Biden are old friends, having served together in the Senate and briefly battled for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
The two often rode Amtrak together during Clinton’s Senate tenure, and Biden sometimes ended his phone calls to Clinton by saying “I love you, darling,” according to a New York Times profile from 2013.
{mosads}She briefly addressed Beau’s death in a tweet last Saturday night, hours after he succumbed to brain cancer.
“My heart is broken for the family of Beau Biden—a wonderful man who served his country with devotion and lived his life with courage,” she said.
President Obama will also attend and give a eulogy for Beau. White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Obama has spent part of Friday working on the eulogy and that he had a “personal relationship” with Beau.
“The president is feeling, in a very personal way, this loss,” Earnest told reporters Friday.
“While he is and his family are of course saddened by Beau’s death, I know he’s also looking forward to spending some time tomorrow celebrating Beau’s life — that he was a remarkable individual, a remarkable public servant — and talking in a personal way about his character, about the way that he felt about his family, about the way he felt about his country.”
The former Delaware attorney general is survived by his wife, Hallie, and his children, Natalie and Hunter.
Updated at 4:51 p.m.
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