Days after a blunder involving a recently deceased congresswoman, President Joe Biden privately apologized to her family.
In a speech at a White House conference on hunger last Wednesday, the president cast about for the lawmakers who helped organize the event, asking, “Where’s Jackie?” in seeming reference to Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN). Walorski died in an August car crash. Keith Walorski, the congresswoman’s brother, told the NY Post that the family had met the president for a half-hour conversation in the Oval Office. According to Keith, the Walorski matriarch, 83-year-old Martha, told Biden, “Well, Mr. President, we can tell you where Jackie is. She’s in heaven….”
The president is “very strong in his Catholicism,” Keith Walorski added, “so all he could do is say, ‘Yes, you’re right. I know.’” Read more at the New York Post.
