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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) applauds as U.S. President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol February 12, 2013 in Washington, DC. Facing a divided Congress, Obama focused his speech on new initiatives designed to stimulate the U.S. economy. (Photo by Charles Dharapak-Pool/Getty Images)

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Vice President Joe Biden, with Attorney General Eric Holder at left, speaks during a meeting with victims' groups and gun safety organizations.

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Vice President Joe Biden, with Attorney General Eric Holder at left, speaks during a meeting with victims' groups and gun safety organizations.

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pose with the full Cabinet in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 10, 2009. Seated from left: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Standing second row, from left: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Back row, from left: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer.

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Vice President Joe Biden serves rolls during the Whitehall Neck Sportsman Club's Wild Game Dinner at the Volunteer Fire Hall in Leipsic, DE, Mar. 4, 2013.

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Vice President Joe Biden serves rolls during the Whitehall Neck Sportsman Club's Wild Game Dinner at the Volunteer Fire Hall in Leipsic, DE, March 4, 2013.

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Vice President Joe Biden serves rolls during the Whitehall Neck Sportsman Club's Wild Game Dinner at the Volunteer Fire Hall in Leipsic, DE, March 4, 2013.

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pose with the full Cabinet for an official group photo in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 10, 2009. Seated from left: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Standing second row, from left: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Back row, from left: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, or promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

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People leave the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, after the National Prayer Service, attended by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and their spouses. The 106-year-old Episcopal church has long hosted presidential inaugural services., this one following Monday's 57th Presidential Inauguration.

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Vice President Joe Biden takes the oath of office from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as his wife Dr. Jill Biden looks on during the official swearing-in ceremony at the Naval Observatory in Washington, Jan. 20, 2013.

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, listens as President Barack Obama announces that Biden will lead an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence in response to the Connecticut school shooting, during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 in Washington.

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U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden gives a speech at the 49th Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 2, 2013.

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured.

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Vice President Joe Biden gives two thumbs up following a Senate Democratic caucus meeting about the fiscal cliff on Capitol Hill on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 in Washington.

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Vice President Joe Biden, right, reenacts the swearing in of Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., as President Pro Tempore of the Senate on Capitol Hill in the Old Senate Chamber in Washington.

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Joe Biden walks on stage during an election night gathering in Grant Park on November 4, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) defeated Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

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Vice President Joe Biden delivers a retort in the vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, October 10, 2012.

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Vice President Joe Biden at the debate in Danville, Kentucky, U.S., on Oct. 11, 2012.

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Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio (left) and Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Lancaster, Ohio.

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Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 6, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Vice-President Joe Biden, center, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen share a laugh prior to the U.S. Forces-Iraq change of command ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Joe Biden, with his two sons, and wife, Neilia, who was killed in an automobile accident one month before he took office.

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Joe Biden speaks after being introduced by running mate Barack Obama in Springfield, Illinois

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Senator Joe Biden listens to his iPod aboard the Obama campaign plane en route to Washington, D.C., from Greensboro, N.C.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in his office in Washington, January 11, 2013.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hugs U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell Sunday, March 3, 2013, during the Martin and Coretta King Unity Brunch at Wallace Community College in Selma, Ala.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) applauds as U.S. President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol February 12, 2013 in Washington, DC.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) gives a thumbs up as President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) prior to delivering his State of the Union Speech on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 12, 2013.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden makes a point in front of Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan and moderator Martha Raddatz during the vice-presidential debate in Danville, Ky., on Thursday, Oct. 11

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Vice President Joe Biden makes a point in front of Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan and moderator Martha Raddatz during the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., Oct. 11, 2012.

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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky.

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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin shake hands before the vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky., on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in Thursday night's debate in Danville, Ky.

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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan participate in the vice presidential debate as moderator Martha Raddatz looks on at Centre College in Danville, Ky., on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, at the White House on April 12, 2011; Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan in Washington on April 5, 2011

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Vice President Joe Biden speaking in Charlotte, N.C., Sept 6, 2012, and Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, speaking in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 29, 2012, are shown in this combination photo.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) makes a point in front of Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan and moderator Martha Raddatz (C) during the vice presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky, October 11, 2012.

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Speaker of the House John Boehner look on as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 24, 2012.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, greets Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, center, before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, and President Barack Obama tour a Chrysler plant in Kokomo, Ind.

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Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama and Solicitor General Elena Kagan walk into the East Room before Obama announced Kagan as his choice to be the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice.

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden smile before the heath care legislation signing ceremony at the White House.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, at a press conference at the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010

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Vice President Joe Biden attends a welcome ceremony in Tbilisi on July 23, 2009

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, is welcomed by the Czech Republic's Prime Minister Jan Fischer, left, at the Government's headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk share a laugh before talks at the Prime Minister's chancellory in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009

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Vice President Joe Biden arrives for the meeting of the Middle Class Task Force at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Feb. 27, 2009

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Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California applaud as President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Washingtona on February 24, 2009.

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, right, applaud as President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, meets Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov during the International Conference on Security Policy in Munich

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 18

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Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at George Mason University's Prince William County Campus on Sept. 4

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Illustration of Joe Biden sitting on the White House.

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U.S. President Barack Obama arrives with Vice President Joe Biden to deliver a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington April 17, 2013.

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to reporters after his meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington February 27, 2013.

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to reporters after his meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington February 27, 2013.

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President Obama announces the coming end of the war in Afghanistan. Vice President Joe Biden stands and applauds, while House Speaker John Boehner remains seated.

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President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement on Dec. 19, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, about policies he will pursue following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden stand to applaud as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 12, 2013.

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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden stand to applaud as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 12, 2013.

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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) gestures toward Vice President Joe Biden (C) and House Speaker John Boehner (D-OH) prior to delivering his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 12, 2013.

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, gestures as he talks about proposals to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington.

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about proposals to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington.

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, presents his proposals to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington.

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden makes a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Jan. 1, 2013.

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President Barack Obama unveils a series of proposals to counter gun violence as Vice President Joe Biden looks on during an event at the White House in Washington, Jan. 16, 2013.

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President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden appear at a campaign event at Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio

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President Barack Obama, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks during a campaign event at Triangle Park in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 23, 2012.

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Moderator Martha Raddatz watches as Vice President Joe Biden and Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan greet each other as they arrive at the vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky., on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden acknowledge the audience at the conclusion of their acceptance of the Democratic National Convention's nomination to run for a second term as president and vice-president at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sept. 6, 2012

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden stand together at the end of the final session in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 6, 2012.

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President Barack Obama speaks with Vice President Joe Biden before signing the STOCK Act into law at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, April 4, 2012.

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Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 10, 2011.

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Vice-Presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden acknowledges applause from delegates on the floor of the 2008 Democratic National Convention on Aug. 27

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden share a moment after the Presidential nominee introduced the Delaware Senator as his running muate.

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Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden and Republican vice-presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin shake hands at the end their debate on Oct. 2

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From left, Vice President Joe Biden, President Obama, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag depart a budget presentation in February

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Barack Obama is flanked by Joe Biden, left; Rahm Emanuel, right; and members of his transition economic advisory board

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden speaks during a house party in Marion, Iowa.

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Democratic vice presidential candidate U.S. Senator Joe Biden speaks at a rally.

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Dick Cheney, accompanied by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, leaves the White House for the inauguration ceremony.

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President-elect Barack Obama, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden wave from their train as they pass through Edgewood, Md. on a pre-inauguration whistle stop train tour, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009.

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U.S. Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and Republican Vice Presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin share the same stage in a vice presidential debate on October 2, 2008.

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Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) was appointed to fill Vice President Joe Biden's former senate seat after the general election in November

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, as he prepares to sign the guest book at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010

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From left, Governor Tim Kaine, Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden

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Republican vice-presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Democratic vice-presidential candidate U.S. Senator Joe Biden during their debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., on Oct. 2

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