President Joe Biden and first girl Jill Biden are spending Thanksgiving on Nantucket with different members of their prolonged household, as per their household's custom.
The Bidens, together with their two-year-old grandson Beau, visited firefighters at a Nantucket Firehouse to thank them for his or her laborious work. Additionally they shall be calling army service members to thank them for his or her service.
Mr. Biden and the primary girl referred to as in NBC's Dylan Dreyer whereas she was on air for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York. Mr. Biden mentioned he was grateful for emergency responders.
The primary girl mentioned they have been planning on having dinner after which taking a stroll on the seaside.
The Bidens' granddaughter Naomi, the daughter of Hunter Biden and ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, was married final week on the White Home.
In response to Jill Biden's memoir "The place the Gentle Enters," the Bidens started vacationing on Nantucket at Thanksgiving after they have been first relationship. She wrote that Mr. Biden's then-chief of employees advised Nantucket, and so they stayed in one of many cottages on the water.
"Nantucket Thanksgiving turned our custom for the subsequent 4 a long time," Jill wrote. "With a number of exceptions, we have made the trek yearly since, creating rituations that might develop into a key a part of our household alongside the best way."
In truth, the Bidens' late son Beau Biden proposed to his spouse Hallie on the annual Nantucket tree lighting in 2001, and so they have been married at St. Mary's Church in downtown Nantucket.
Jill Biden wrote that the household skipped Nantucket in 2015, the primary Thanksgiving after Beau died. However she mentioned the next 12 months, their grandchildren requested to return to Nantucket.
"Thanksgiving was Nantucket," she wrote. "They missed the little retailers, the ice cream parlor we all the time visited, the standard Friday lunch. They needed to observe the Christmas tree lighting and wander the cobblestone streets. They needed to be collectively. To really feel regular once more.
In response to Mr. Biden's memoir, "Promise Me, Dad," Nantucket is the place Beau and youthful son Hunter in 2014 instructed him to run for president. "'Dad, you have to run,'" Mr. Biden wrote that Beau instructed him and he wrote that Hunter mentioned "'We need you to run.'"
Mr. Biden opted to not run for president in 2016 attributable to Beau's battle with mind most cancers. Beau Biden died in Could 2015.
Mr. Biden has not but mentioned if he's working for president in 2024, telling "60 Minutes" in September that it's his "intention" to run once more. " "However it's simply an intention," Mr. Biden mentioned. "However is it a agency choice that I run once more? That continues to be to be seen."
Former President Donald Trump, who Mr. Biden defeated in 2020, introduced final week that he can be working for president in 2024.