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Joe Biden’s ties to Alabama and its politics go back more than 50 years
The youngest member of the United States Senate, 30-year-old Joe Biden, visited Cumberland School of Law in October 1973 as the nation’s pundits worried a divisive Republican president might leave America forever damaged. Richard Nixon had just fired …