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AN ORATOR LIKE NO OTHER

ONE OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT’S GREATEST gifts was his oratory, an area that Joe Biden himself admits is not his strong suit. If anything, the self-described “gaffe machine” leans in hard on the narrative that he overcame a childhood stutter through grit and determination that, at age 77, he still occasionally battles. Even more challenging, Biden has become infamous, both as vice president during the Obama administration and in his current presidential campaign, for garbled statements and inappropriate remarks—most recently when he told popular African American radio host Charlamagne tha

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