BIDEN WITHDRAWS BID FOR PRESIDENT IN - WAKE OF FUROR [1987] Posted: Aug 13th, 2020 - 1:47 pm In Reply to: Will anyone remember these lies? - Pinocchio??
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., declaring that his candidacy had been overwhelmed by ''the exaggerated shadow'' of his mistakes, dropped out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination today.
The 44-year-old legislator from Delaware betrayed little bitterness but some sadness as he stood behind a forest of microphones at a crowded news conference. In sharp contrast with former Senator Gary Hart, who withdrew from the Democratic contest in a blur of invective against the news media, Mr. Biden chose to swallow most of his private anger and place the burden for the end of his candidacy on himself.
''I made some mistakes,'' said Mr. Biden, who has faced 10 days of news reports on his lifting of sections from the speeches of others and on his record in college and law school. Role in Bork Hearings Stressed
Mr. Biden cast his departure as a choice between salvaging his candidacy or fulfilling his responsibility as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the hearings on Judge Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. Mr. Biden said he felt his first responsibility was ''to keep the Supreme Court from moving in a direction that I believe to be truly harmful.''
''I intend to be deeply involved in that battle,'' he said. ''I intend to attempt to bring it to victory.''
Mr. Biden made clear today that he thought another Presidential campaign might lie ahead of him.
The impact of Mr. Biden's withdrawal on the Democratic contest was unclear, in part because he had not achieved any broad national recognition until the Bork hearings and the recent disclosures about his speeches and his law school record.
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