Joe and his smoldering hot good looks.

Hot, Handsome Joe Biden Is the Dems’ New White House Hope, but He Still Needs to Win Votes at Home – People (8/25/1986)

The TV camera does not simply love Sen. Joe Biden. It goes positively weak with desire whenever he flashes his dazzling teeth at the lens. First there was the 10-minute shouting match with Secretary of State George Shultz during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee debate over South African sanctions. As Joe jabbed his fingers angrily in the air, he blasted the Administration for its “lack of moral backbone.” The image played early and often on the network news. Days later Biden was back, leading the Democratic charge across the small screen against William Rehnquist, the President’s choice for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This time Biden kept his finger in his pocket, as he pressed Rehnquist for his opinion on the 1954 landmark desegregation case, Brown vs. Board of Education. Rehnquist politely protested that he was merely a law clerk for a Supreme Court Justice at the time of the ruling. “Law clerks don’t have to vote,” Rehnquist temporized. “No, but surely they think?” Biden asked. Rehnquist conceded, “Yes, they do.” Looking down into the crowded committee room and playing to the TV audience beyond, the Senator hesitated, as if to consider the answer. Then, with gentle but pointed exasperation, he said, “I’ll be darned.”

HT: WFB