President Biden and first lady Jill Biden expressed sadness Friday over actress Betty White’s passing, with the president calling her “a lovely lady.”
“That’s a shame,” Biden told reporters outside a Delaware restaurant where he and his wife had gone for a New Year’s Eve lunch.“Who didn’t love Betty White?” the first lady chimed in. “We’re so sad.”
The “Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Golden Girls” actress was found dead Friday morning at her Brentwood, Calif. home. She would have turned 100 years old on Jan. 17. Biden, 79, the oldest person to hold the office of president, did not elaborate on any special kinship he may have felt with White, who at 88 in 2010 wasAmanda Edwards/WireImage
The president was expected to spend a quiet New Year’s Eve at his Wilmington home, with no public events on his Friday schedule. When asked if he had any New Year’s resolutions, Biden said of his wife: “I’m gonna try to earn her more love.”
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