In December of 1972, Joe Biden lost his spouse and baby daughter in a car accident. A month later, he lost his composure at a covered dish supper and began to weep.

According to Wilmington's Morning News, "Most of the audience, men and women and teen-agers, began to cry openly, some putting their heads in their hands."

"Several people in the audience cried out, trying to reassure Biden that they understood, that it was all right."

As another American politician said back in 1968, quoting Aeschylus: “And even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

Robert Kennedy continued, "What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another." May it be so.