When Joe Biden assumes the presidency next week, his biographer Evan Osnos believes he will bring his experience as a deal-maker to bear on Washington. “His belief is, ‘I have to be able to go into a room with a person whom I disagree with, sometimes fiercely, but I have to be able to project to that person that I am willing to hear them out,’” said Osnos, author of Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, in a recent episode of Talks at GS. But while reconciliation may be part of President-elect Biden’s approach, Osnos expects him to immediately employ the levers of the executive branch to tackle some of the nation’s biggest challenges. “Starting on day one with things like rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. Rejoining the World Health Organization, which is partly about trying to manage the COVID epidemic. But it's also partly about sending a message to the rest of the world that the United States is back, in a sense.” |
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