President Biden’s poll numbers may be cold — but his libido sure is hot.
The 81-year-old commander-in-chief is fond of telling aides in the West Wing that the key to a successful marriage is “good sex,” according to a new book.
It’s just part of the leader of the free world’s lusty ways, according to the tell-all “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, From Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden” by New York Times scribe Katie Rogers. It recounts numerous cases over the years of Biden creating awkward moments by opining publicly about his proclivities.
“I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep,” Biden once told a group of supporters in 2006 ahead of his second presidential bid, prompting a spokesman to say the senator was “frankly totally in love with his wife.”
The book, which will be published Tuesday, also shares the conflicting accounts of the couple’s whirlwind romance in the 1970s following the death of Biden’s first wife and intimate details about his nearly half-century marriage to Jill.
During his years in the US Senate, the loose-lipped Delaware pol sometimes put his staff in an awkward spot when asked to respond to the risque remarks, but since winning the 2020 election has “tamped down on his public bedroom declarations,” Rogers notes.
Though, he still sometimes tells staffers in the White House about his feelings about the importance of “good sex” to a happy marriage, the book says, “much to his wife’s chagrin.”
Biden also gushed “about the sexual and emotional connection he and [first wife] Neilia shared,” to the Washingtonian magazine in a 1974 interview, the book recounts, as he was searching for a life partner following his wife’s tragic death and the death of his one-year-old daughter Naomi in a car accident two years before.
“She had the best body of any woman I ever saw. She looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn’t she?” he told the journalist Kitty Kelley in the profile, boasting how he got her change her party registration from Republican to Democrat and she boosted him in his successful Senate campaign.
“At first she stayed at home with the kids while I campaigned but that didn’t work out because I’d come back too tired to talk to her. I might satisfy her in bed but I didn’t have much time for anything else,” he said.
“That’s when she started campaigning with me and that’s when I started winning. You know, the people of Delaware really elected her … but they got me.”
Biden also spoke about his desire to remarry during the interview.
“I do indeed want to get married again. I hate the image of the gay, young bachelor about town. That’s just not my style. I am not a womanizer,” he told Kelley.
“I would like very much to fall in love and be married again because basically I am a family man. I want to find a woman to adore me again.”
Jill would become central to Biden’s political ambitions, the book shows, with family members having “made it clear to her that Joe wanted to run for the presidency” as early as 1977 — and his brothers James and Frank inviting her “out to dinner to suss her out and make sure she was on board.”
“They were letting me in on this, and kind of warning me that if I was going to marry him, that this was part of the plan,” she said in an interview with PBS last September.
Joe and Jill say they first met through James, who introduced the two, after the then-Delaware senator gushed to his brother about a photo of her he saw displayed in the Wilmington, Del., airport in 1975 — the same year she and her first husband divorced.
Jill’s ex-husband, Bill Stevenson, has disputed the timeline and said he introduced the two in his kitchen three years earlier, while helping Biden run his 1972 Senate campaign.
Biden later had to propose five times before she said “yes,” with added pressure from his sons Beau and Hunter Biden, who asked their dad to pop the question.
He remains smitten with his wife all these years later and has often introduced himself as “Jill Biden’s husband” at campaign events.
Jill has gone on to be one of his “closest advisers” and was a key surrogate for his 2020 campaign as the COVID-19 pandemic prevented him from holding high-profile public events.