![]() ![]() Price used these photos as a framing device. The conferees at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute did laugh at the Veep, and then we laughed at his erstwhile opponent from four years ago when Price flashed a shot of the note Sarah Palin had scribbled on her palm. One would not be surprised to see on the list a twice-underlined "Malarkey". ![]() ![]() It's satisfying to laugh at - the potential vastness of the subject each bullet point alludes to reinforces the theme of Joe Biden as larger-than-life cartoon. To the extent Biden's jottings are decipherable - "No Apology," "Egyptian People" and maybe a few others - I recognized the method immediately. Harvard English professor Leah Price, one of the co-organizers of TakeNote, a conference dedicated to the history, theory, practice and future of note-taking, opened her introductory remarks with a much-circulated picture of Biden holding up his notes after this year's vice-presidential debate. What has stuck with me for a decade is the passionate answer Biden produced from the simple mnemonic of that one underlined word. After Clatworthy stumbled to the finish line, Biden waited a beat, then said, "The answer to your question is 'yes'." and spun out a long, impassioned statement about the federal government's commitment to Delaware. Clatworthy hedged, seeming to imply that the topic was beneath consideration in a Senate debate.īiden wrote "Bridge" on a folded piece of paper, underlined it once, and then sat there wearing the Ol' Joe smirk. Ten years ago, as a reporter at a radio debate between then-Senator Joe Biden and his hapless, sacrificial-lamb of a Republican challenger, Ray Clatworthy, I asked a question about a bridge in southern New Castle County, and whether it should continue to be maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers. Joe Biden's notes from the vice-presidential debate (AP) ![]()
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