Joe Biden: Barack Obama offered financial help during Beau Biden’s illness

Mr Biden, 73, announced in October he would not run for president after wrestling with doubts about whether he and his family were ready for a gruelling campaign while still mourning Beau’s death.

The vice-president told Obama that he’d been worrying about how to ensure that his son’s family was taken care of, should Beau stop drawing a salary.

According to Biden, Obama stood up immediately and said, “Don’t sell that house”.

“I’m going to spend the next 15 months in this office pushing as hard as I can to accomplish this”, Biden said during that speech. “I think there are outdated regulations that need to be changed, and there’s red tape that needs to be cut”, the President says in another line that receives huge applause. Don’t [sell the house], Joe, promise me.

That includes Obama, who Biden said experienced Beau’s loss as more than just a boss or a friend.

“And he got up and he said, ‘Don’t sell that house”. The president offers such as the VP’s son is facing the possibility of quitting as Delaware’s attorney general due to his health issues.

Vice President Joe Biden offered effusive praise for Democratic presidential candidate Sen.

In the never been told before story, Biden recalled how concerned Obama had been. “He said, promise me”.

Vice president Biden’s son, Beau, was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago, and died last year.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden bonded over a common enemy at the State of the Union: Cancer.

Biden vowed to find ways to boost public and private funding for cancer research and treatment and to reorganize the effort, declaring: “This is our moonshot”.

At Beau’s funeral, Obama delivered the eulogy in his honor, describing him as a good man who set an example that makes one want to be a better person.