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" "The god's truth is, we are a melting pot.
It is the ultimate source of our strength, it is the ultimate source of who we are, what we've become.
It started all the way back in the late 1700s.
There's been a constant unrelenting stream of immigrants.
Not in little trickles, but in large numbers.
..
He said they're in America looking for the buried black box, and I looked at him just like you're looking at me, like what's he talking about?
He said they're looking for that secret that allows America to constantly be able to remake itself, unlike any other country in the world.
I said, I can presume to tell you what's in that black box, mister president. I'm old enough now.
I said one is that there is in America an overwhelming skepticism for orthodoxy.
From the time a child, whether they're naturalized or they're native-born, they think about it, a child never gets criticized in our education system for challenging orthodoxy, for challenging the status quo.
I would argue it's unlike any other large country in the world.
There's a second thing in that black box. An unrelenting stream of immigration.
Non stop, nonstop.
Folks like me who are Caucasian, of European descent, for the first time in 2017 we'll be an absolute minority in the United States of America. Absolute minority.
Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock. That's not a bad thing. That's a source of our strength.
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, and represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009.
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Listen to me, boss," Biden told Obama, according to Obama's recent memoir recounting their conversations. "Maybe I've been around this town for too long, but one thing I know is when these generals are trying to box in a new president." According to the former President's account, Biden brought his face a few inches from Obama's and stage-whispered: "Don't let them jam you.