While many revere President Joe Biden for his strong political prowess, he has always credited his late wife, Neilia, for his stellar start in politics. “She was the brains. Also she prevented me from blowing my top when I got angry late in the going,” he told USA Today about his first senate campaign. Later on, in his memoir “Promises to Keep,” he explained that it was she who instilled confidence in him. “Once I had Neilia with me, it became more of a plan than a daydream. Nobody outside my family believed in me the way Neilia did; seeing myself through her eyes made anything seem possible,” he penned.
Alas, it appears she was the brains for her husband in more ways than one. In the confines of his memoir, Joe revealed that Neilia also played an integral role in helping him obtain his law degree from Syracuse University College of Law by taking notes and creating study sheets. “Her study sheets were so detailed and the mnemonic devices she invented so clever, that I cruised through the exams in torts and criminal law,” he gushed.
