Biden, first lady thank service members in Christmas calls

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden celebrated a quiet Christmas along with his household on the White Home and spoke with service members stationed all over the world.

“They’re away from their households to guard us,” Biden stated in a tweet. “And so they have the thanks of a grateful, indebted president.”

The White Home stated Biden and the primary woman, Jill, referred to as members of the Military stationed at Panama Metropolis, Panama; the Navy aboard the USS The Sullivans within the Arabian Sea; the Marine Corps at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego; the Air Pressure at Okinawa, Japan; the House Pressure in Europe; and the Coast Guard aboard the cutter Bertholf in Alameda, California.

That is Biden’s second Christmas as president. On Saturday, Biden and his household joined a Mass on Christmas Eve on the White Home and continued their vacation custom of an Italian dinner.

The president and first woman on Friday additionally carried on one other custom with their second vacation go to to Youngsters’s Nationwide Hospital. Biden was the primary sitting president to hitch his spouse once they visited hospitalized kids and their households earlier than Christmas final 12 months, based on the White Home.

Surrounded by Christmas timber and vacation decorations, the primary woman learn “The Snowy Day” with the president’s assist holding up the ebook.

Biden final week inspired nationwide unity in a recorded handle, calling out the nation’s political divisions and saying he hoped “this vacation season will drain the poison that has contaminated our politics and set us in opposition to each other.”

“So, this Christmas, let’s unfold a bit kindness,” he stated.