Six Takeaways From the Magazine’s Profile of Joe Biden

Biden’s decades of experience in the Senate were an asset to the new president, who leaned on him as a legislative sausage-maker. “He was willing to do something Obama wasn’t always eager to do — which was go to the Hill, work the members, have the dinners,” said the former deputy chief of staff Jim Messina. Biden became a trusted confidant who, according to one White House adviser, frequently urged the more deliberative Obama to “go with your gut.”