The White House has not said how Biden, who turned 79 last Saturday, plans to spend his time on Nantucket. Hunter’s daughter, Finnegan, later was seen on one of the balconies, holding brother Beau and watching as their grandparents departed for North Carolina. Hunter, his wife, Melissa, and their toddler son, Beau, watched Monday as the official Christmas tree was delivered. Some Biden family members were at the White House this week. Instead, the then-president-elect hunkered down for Thanksgiving with just his wife, their daughter and her husband.īoth the president and first lady since have received the main two-dose course of the Pfizer vaccine, as well as the third booster shot recommended by public health officials to provide more enduring protection against the coronavirus. Last fall, Biden put tradition on hold over COVID-19 concerns, when people were being told to avoid traveling and gathering indoors in large groups for the holidays. Thanksgiving on “Nana-tucket” - as their grandchildren call the island in a play on their “Nana” nickname for their grandmother - became the family tradition for the next several decades, though with a few exceptions, the first lady wrote. So they packed a cooler with sandwiches and sodas, loaded the boys into the station wagon and drove six hours to the Cape, where a ferry chugged them over to the island. “And although neither Joe nor I had ever been, we decided that sounded as good as anywhere,” she wrote. senator back then and his chief of staff suggested they go to Nantucket. The couple was looking for a way out of the conundrum of choosing one of their families over the other to spend Thanksgiving with, the first lady wrote in her memoir.īiden was a U.S. The Bidens were still dating when they first visited Nantucket, with Biden’s sons, Beau and Hunter, in the mid-1970s. The first lady also joined the president on a visit to the Army’s Fort Bragg in North Carolina later Monday for an early Thanksgiving with service members and their families. Jill Biden kicked off the holiday season at the White House on Monday when she received the official White House Christmas tree - an 18 1/2-foot (5.6 meter) Fraser fir cut from a North Carolina farm that she declared “magnificent.” The tree is destined for the Blue Room as the showstopper of Christmas at the White House - Biden’s first as president. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were joining the outing to DC Central Kitchen, which serves cooked-from-scratch meals alongside training for culinary jobs.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, were fixing to help a local food kitchen prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy before hitting the road - like millions of other Americans - to resume their family tradition of spending the holiday on tiny Nantucket island in Massachusetts.
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