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Joe Biden Fast Facts
CNN Library
Updated 5:27 PM ET, Wed November 30, 2016
August 1, 2007 - Releases his memoir, "Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics."
January 3, 2008 - Announces his withdrawal from the presidential race.
August 23, 2008 - Is named the vice presidential running mate of Barack Obama.
November 4, 2008 - Is elected vice president of the United States.
January 15, 2009 - Resigns from the Senate.
January 20, 2009 - Is sworn in as vice president of the United States.
February 7, 2009 - Delivers first major speech as vice president at a security conference in Germany.
September 1, 2010 - Presides over a ceremony in Iraq to formally mark the end of the US combat mission in Iraq.
November 6, 2012 - Barack Obama and Biden are re-elected president and vice president of the United States, defeating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
January 20, 2013 - Is sworn in for his second term as vice president of the United States.
October 2, 2014 - Speaking at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Biden tells attendees that ISIS has been inadvertently strengthened by actions taken by Turkey, the UAE and other Middle Eastern allies to help opposition groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
October 4, 2014 - Biden speaks by telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding remarks made at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He apologizes "for any implication that Turkey or other allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL or other violent extremists in Syria."
May 30, 2015 - Biden's eldest son Beau Biden passes away from brain cancer at age 46.
October 21, 2015 - Says he will not seek the presidency, announcing that the window for a successful campaign "has closed."
January 3, 2008 - Announces his withdrawal from the presidential race.
June 18, 2008 - Larry Sinclair, the man who claims he had sex and did crack & coc aine with Obama, in 1999, is arrested at his press conference on a bogus warrant signed by Beau Biden's office. After spending two weeks in jail, all charges were eventually dropped.
August 23, 2008 - Is named the vice presidential running mate of Barack Obama.
Obama hands out medals of freedom like they are candy on Halloween. He has given away more medals of freedom than any other president.
what exactly did joe do to earn his medal of freedom?