Joe Biden (19th Century World War)



Joe Biden was the 43rd President of the United States of America (2001 - 2009), preceded by Hillary Clinton and succeeded by Barack Obama. His wife, Neilia H. Biden, served as his Vice President after a narrow party-line vote. He was a father to 4 kids, 2 of whom are Beau Biden and Hunter Biden. Joe Biden was one of the few independent runners for the White House to actually win the election. While in office, he used words and diplomacy to resolve America's international struggles, and not weapons and bombs.

As one of his 1st acts in office, President Biden proposed in a talk with the press, an act to help every American citizen find a job. However, it was not passed until the 2nd half of his term. In the early days of his administration, Joe decided that since the Native, Hispanic, and African members of America each had their own days to celebrate they're cultural heritage, that all of America should have the same. So he established “American Cultural Heritage Day”, where the whole country would celebrate their great nation's history, culture, and achievements in the world (Independence Day was inducted into it).

President Biden regularly attended movie premieres and sports games, invited the other world leaders to dinner parties, and even visited different nations for the holidays. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, Biden led an investigation into Middle Eastern leader, Osama Bin Laden. After Hurricane Katrina flooded the gulf coast of New Orleans in 2005, he sailed in a big ship to rescue the survivors and go under the water to find any surviving food that may help sustain the survivors.

Childhood
Since his birth on November 20th, 1972, Joe Biden had a keen fascination with history.

Entry Into Politics
Remembering from history that the country was having problems; inequality, unfairness, crime, etc. With that, he knew something had to be done. He knew that every American has the power to make a change if they're willing to work for it, and he was.

Campaign
In March of 2000, Joe started an independent campaign for President of the United States of America. His family would follow through whatever his campaign might bring, that included his wife and children, his parents and siblings, and his in-laws.



In a speech he gave on July 4th, 2000, in his home-state of Pennsylvania, Joe promised that the nation would get better. Speech: “Our country is in bad shape, yes, but we can't let that stop us from trying to make it better! I believe, no, I know, that every citizen of America has the power to change their country for the better if they really want to do it. I for one, believe that all men, no, all people are created equal, whether female or male of any race, religion, or country of origin. I will never seek to fight with our fellow nations, but rather, to treat them not merely as allies, but friends. The choice is in the hands of you, the people, but if I'm given the office of President, I will try my best to lead our country to an era of peace, prosperity, and equality among all people.”



This speech helped to rally the votes in Joe's favor. However, it wasn't the only speech that would get the people hooked to him; another speech, which he gave on October 8th, in New York City, only a month before the election, his campaign would be well on its was to victory. Speech: “To ensure the future of this country, we must first look to the past. The history of our nation has many stories to tell and many lessons to teach. In the past, this country has made many great achievements in the fields of science, technology, and space exploration. Also, the past teaches us of the mistakes made by those long before us, so that we may not repeat them. For me, history is my inspiration to be a leader, after all, the nation's fathers and the people who followed them prove that great societies rise not through the strength of a single leader, but through the unity and cooperation of its people and government.”



Election Day finally arrived on the night of November 7th, 2000. The nation, if not the world, held its breath waiting to see which candidate would get the final precarious vote that would win the White House. It came to a close 3-way tie between Joe and Republican candidate, George W. Bush, son of former US President George H. W. Bush and Democratic candidate, Vice-President Al Gore. Florida was the only state that wasn't balanced in the votes, but as luck would have it, the vote went to Joe Biden. He became one of the very few independent runners for the White House that actually won.

2004 Presidential Election
By the time his 1st term ended, President Joe Biden's policies had earned the respect and praise of the country. His promise to keep equality one of the top priorities his administration brought plenty of women and African-American voters to his side. Also, his diplomatic works at solving the problems with the Middle East let the people see how capable he was of leading the nation out of trouble without fighting other nations. In the end, he won 34 of the 50 states, 17/25 of the nation. He was the 1st independent party President to win re-election.

Presidency
Having won the election, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States. He was really looking forward to his new way of life, not just for him or the nation, but for his family. Because to him, his family deserved the best life, and there's not much better than life as America's leading family. Joe and Neilia got the Presidential bedroom that had belonged to the Clintons, while Beau and Hunter shared the Lincoln Bedroom.



The following week after his inauguration, President Biden addressed Congress with the task of selecting a new Vice-President of the United States, since Al Gore's was yet to be decided. In both his and his family's interests and his ideas to set an example for the country, Joe chose his wife, Neilia H. Biden as the nation's next Vice-President and 1st female Vice-President. ​​​​​​​

Domestic Policy
Soon after confirmation by a narrow vote, President Biden chose to address the press on stage: “Greetings, as I've said during my run for the White House, America is in bad shape. But the worse part is that we feel like there's nothing we can do about it. And that's sad, because we can, because I know we can all make a change if we're willing to. Maybe the problem is that we don't know where to start solving these problems, but I have an idea of where we can start. From this day forward, I'm holding this government responsible for finding a job for every citizen who wants one. Whenever someone finally gets a job, they feel a thrill like lightning. And it's not about the money they make, it's about knowing that they've done something valuable with their day, if not their life. And if more and more people get this feeling, these other problems may not seem beyond our reach. You never know how much you can really do until you stand up and decide to try. Thank you, now let's get to work.”

Civil Rights and Diversity
By 2004, President Biden still didn't like how African-Americans were still being treated like outsiders. So, to show and example, he appointed Denzel Washington as his new Secretary of the Treasury. Any African-American before than had not been given such a prestigious honor. Joe presented the appointment to Washington personally as a gift for his 60th birthday. Washington quoted: “I was utterly touched by this, the President was in my house, wished me 'Happy Birthday', and gave me a seat on his cabinet. I was beside myself, someone like me never got that far in politics, but I'm the first!” Then, President Biden told USA Today: “I think Denzel is good for the job, besides, it'll be good for the government to have another Washington helping to run it (referring to George Washington in the past)”.



The example set by Washington's appointment got many Americans thinking about how African-Americans could do good things for the nation just as the next person could. Afterwords, many African-Americans were offered high-class working positions, such as pilots for airlines and officers in the state police forces. ​​​​​​​

Cloning
President Biden was fascinated by the idea of cloning a human. He had the American Science Committee to try experimenting such a thing using creatures with anatomy similar to a human's. They started smaller with monkeys and chimpanzees. After these experiments went well, they moved up to gorillas. The first time they attempted human duplication, was by using the corpse of a dead man. While it's unpredictable to clone a human that's alive, the clone may live even if the original host is dead. So President Biden signed the 'advancement of science act' which allows the government to secure DNA samples from corpses before they're buried or cremated. However, it's still a matter of dealing with the fact that clones age faster than their original host.

Space Travel and Exploration
<p style="text-align: LEFT;">Space also entranced the President, so much, he hoped mankind would reach far beyond the solar system. But first things first, he wanted to establish a full colony on the moon. While sending probes there, he hypothesized that there could be water on the moon, in the form of permanent ice (permafrost). If mankind would somehow harvest water from it, then life could become sustainable on the moon. In the mean time, he came up with another plan: the colony would be established underneath a large dome to maintain oxygen and there would be supply runs from the Earth each year, from one of the different nations.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">This plan, however, brought the President pressure on a 'territorial scale'. Since the moon orbited the Earth, a lot of people thought it should belong to all of Earth's people. However, some people in America believed the moon belonged to them since they orbited and landed on it first, also placed their flag on the surface. President Biden remembered that he promised to try and befriend the other nations, so he decided that the colony would be may up of people from around the world, mostly in groups of families, so the colony could grow and possibly expand.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">In 2004, President Biden remembered that the Saturn V rocket put men on the moon, so he had the American Space Program, including NASA, remake the rockets. He loaded the rocket with food and building supplies and volunteer families from around the world (America, Russia, England, France, China, and Africa, one family from each) and prepared the final launch checks. On November 2, the Lunar Colony mission was launched. It was specifically on that day because President Reinerth knew it took 3 days for Apollo 11 to reach the moon, and he planned to surprise his wife, First Lady and Vice President, Neilia H. Biden, with the colonists landing on her 38th birthday. And she was indeed surprised, in fact, the President named the colony after her; 'LunaHunter'. ​​​​​​​

<p style="text-align: LEFT;">Next, the President turned his attention to the possibilities of putting people on Mars and going beyond the solar system. The Saturn V would come in handy for that, since it held more people and supplies and could reach farther distances. In fact, because President Biden included Russia in the Lunar colony, he managed to establish a 'cooperative pact' with Russia. So finally, after almost 3 decades of competing, Russia and America could finally start working together to advance both the technology on Earth and the modes of space travel. It was said that before signing the pact, President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin played a small and friendly game of chess, and Joe won.

Environment
<p style="text-align: LEFT;">President Biden knew that America's natural beauty is one thing that made America a nice place to visit, or live. Not only that, but he knew that if the Earth died from all the pollution, humanity would die with it. So protecting the natural beauty and health of America would be one of the focuses of his administration. To clean up the smogged up air, he came up with this; he would install special atmospheric pumps across the continent and install and special cleansing gas in them. By his 38th birthday in 2006, the pumps had been placed in the center (Kansas) and 4 corners of the country (Florida, California, Washington, and Vermont) and the air was getting fresher no matter what amount of air pollution there was.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">President Biden also made it illegal for any kind of industry or power plant to be built anywhere near the national parks, so they would never be polluted and no animal would be in danger. He even had scientists make extremely protective containers for nuclear waste so nuclear power plants would have no fear and abolished all coal processing plants to reduce air pollution. The closed coal plants were than converted into wind and solar power plants, the kinds more friendly and cooperative with the environment.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">As a bonus, he came up with a new way for cars to run without gas pollution; solar power. The roofs of cars would be outfitted with solar panels, that would charge cars with electrical power, using the rays of the sun. There would be times when the sun would be blocked or set, so the panels would power the car engine while simultaneously charging an electrical car battery. When the car's engine was turned off, the panels would just charge the battery. This all won Biden great popularity in America, his environmental policies were unparalleled since the Teddy Roosevelt administration.

Education
America's education was an important factor to its future as the younger generation needed it to gain their own lives and contribute to themselves and the nation, President Biden knew this. So he decided that the government should offer its help to rural schools (Elementary, Middle, and High School) to keep them on their feet. He addressed the nation and proposed this idea to families around America. As he did, the President knew that parents wanted the schools to stay afloat for the future of their children. With enough votes, the “No School Shall Fall” act was passed, the government would help rural schools where they could (of course, schools would still have programs to raise their own money to stay afloat).

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">After the government promised to help the schools, rural schools stopped allowing advertising spaces for big corporations on their grounds. The school officials knew that corporate ads could corrupt or even distract the students from their work, and they could not allow that. With the passing of the “No School Shall Fall” act, schools not only became more stable, but more reliable too. ​​​​​​​

Social Security
<p style="text-align: LEFT;">In the name of social security, President Biden feared that America's crime and death rate may get out of control unless he did something about it, as indeed he did: It was controversial to tradition, but sacrifices must be made, he repelled the 2nd amendment to the US constitution, which allowed the right to bear arms. As a fan of history, this was one of the hardest choices Joe had to make, but he knew it was for the nation's own good. He figured that if the public legally obtained guns, they might either be careless enough with them to get someone hurt, or worse, killed.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">Also, no one knows if a criminal could use a gun that's easily obtainable by store, he figured if he took guns away from the public, they could take a bite out of crime. It may not stop crime entirely, or stop crooks from getting guns from other (more illegal) sources, but it could be a very good start. After guns were forbidden from the public, all gun stores in the country were shut down and later converted to other kinds of establishments (restaurants, grocery shops, etc.). This was the beginning for a new America, a more peaceful America (though guns were now only distibuted to members of the nation's police departments and military forces).

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina flooded the New Orleans Gulf Coast, President Biden knew something had to be done to help any survivors. He gathered some men from the Navy, boarded a big ocean liner, and sailed right into the flooded New Orleans. To rescue the survivors, ropes were thrown off the sides for them to grab from on top of houses and buildings, while the Navy men went out in the lifeboats to gather the survivors drifting along the flood. After all the survivors were rescued, the President took a daring move; he went scuba-diving through the flooded city to find any foods that may have survived. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to sustain all of the survivors, so they were taken out of the city to be temporarily relocated to Hawaii, where they would stay until New Orleans recovered.

Foreign Policies and Visits
<p style="text-align: LEFT;">After taking office, President Biden invited the members of Congress and the leaders of other nations over to a dinner party at the White House on October 24th, 2007, the 62nd anniversary of the forming of the United Nations. He gave a speech to the occasion as all the guests were seated; “I'd like to have everyone's attention, on behalf of the United States of America, I'd like to welcome the leaders of our fellow nations here tonight. Tonight is the 62nd year since our nations came together to form the United Nations, succeeding the League of Nations after World War 2. And so, I'd like to propose that this 'dinner party between nations' beheld in honor of the UN, for all of the planning, hard work, and compromise it put into ensuring long-lasting peace, security, and stability in the world”. All the national leaders agreed with him and drank a toast to him and the UN.

9/11 Terrorist Attacks
<p style="text-align: LEFT;">On September 11th, 2001, President Biden was attending a baseball game for the Philadelphia Phillies. When one of his Secret Service members came to him and whispered in his ear: The World Trade Center in New York City had been attacked by Middle Eastern terrorists in a plane crash. Once Biden heard this news, he immediately left the game and took his helicopter straight to New York. Once he and his secret service arrived, they led and helped firemen and police officers with as many civilians as they could.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">To sort out this problem, President Biden decided to visit Afghanistan to find Osama Bin Laden, who was believed to be responsible. Escorted by an American militia and his ambassador, President Biden went to find and capture Osama Bin Laden, so that he may face charges from both America and the Middle East. Bin Laden was caught in Pakistan after almost being killed by a gunshot. After a talk with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden was found guilty of treason against 2 nations and sentenced to life in the US Penitentiary. After that, foreign cases with the Middle East went as good as gold. ​​​​​​​

Visits Around the World
From time to time, President Biden liked to invite other national leaders over for some social time. This was never even really attempted by previous Presidents, so this made Biden famous.

Invitations
<p style="text-align: LEFT;">One time, in 2005, President Biden invited the Prime Minister of the UK over to play chess, as just like with Putin, Biden won. That same year, he invited the President of France and his family to spend Christmas with them. Together, they all took photos, baked cookies, decked the halls, and opened presents. During the 2003 baseball season, he was joined by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan. He and his cabinet bowled with President Hu Jintao of China and his cabinet in 2006, but lost.

Visits
<p style="text-align: LEFT;">On July 19th, 2002, President Biden was one of the special guests at the Japanese Floating Lantern Festival. In fact, he made a lantern with the stripes and stars of America and let it float on the sea, as a way of wishing for long-lasting peace between America and Japan.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">When Halloween came in 2004, President Biden decided to have 2 Halloweens that same year. 1st they had the usual American style Halloween, then he took his family to celebrate the “Day of the Dead” in Mexico City.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">In April, 2006, President Biden joined President Putin for the Moscow Music Spring Festival, they ate, drank, and danced the night away.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">When Christmas was coming in 2007, President Biden decided to give his family a special holiday treat: He took them to London, England. London at Christmas time is often a wonderful site to behold. While spending Christmas with the Royal Family of England, Joe took his family to see the stage performance of William Shakespeare's A Christmas Carol. They listened to carolers, opened gifts, and had a Christmas dinner fit for the Queen of England.

Post-Presidency
After the inauguration of Barack Obama as America's 44th President, Joe Biden was chosen as his Vice-President.

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<p style="text-align: LEFT;">During the time he spent with Obama, Joe and his family went to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, in 2011. During that time, Biden decided to take his kids to the Hall of Presidents attraction in “Liberty Square” in the Magic Kingdom. At the end of the show, Joe smiled, an animatronic figure of him had been added to the show and gave a recorded speech about how he believed that Americans can change their nation and world if they truly tried. ​​​​​​​