Tune in to Super Soul Sunday every Sunday at 11 a.m. (Picture: Getty) Dr Jill Biden will be the new First Lady of the United States on January 20, taking over from. Here, the former vice president reflects on what has helped him cope with loss and heartbreak over the years, and celebrates Beau's considerable accomplishments and character. Joe and Jill Biden, the soon-to-be President and First Lady of the United States. But what I do is I look at my grandson, his son, and I see him. So, it's not like the pain ever goes away. Joes wife and daughter died in a car crash in 1972, leaving him a widower with two sons, and Jill and her husband filed for divorce in her junior year. Joe was a 33-year-old US senator, and Jill was a 24-year-old college senior. 'I sometimes find myself-say something about him, and I can't handle it. Joe and Jill Biden in the early days of their relationship. The loss of his son, Vice President Biden says during his Super Soul Sunday conversation with Oprah, is still something he's struggling to come to terms with. Then, in 2015, at age 46, Beau, a decorated war veteran and Delaware's attorney general, lost his battle with brain cancer. His sons, Beau and Hunter, who were ages 4 and 3, respectively, were injured but survived.

In 1972, his first wife, Neilia, and his 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in an automobile accident. Senate in Delaware when his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, decided to take the couple’s three children sons. Former Vice President Joe Biden has had to deal with unimaginable family tragedy over the course of his life. You have to go back decades to 1972 Joe Biden had just been elected to the U.S.

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