Kathy Chung went to work for Biden in 2012, becoming a gatekeeper for the vice president and an integral part of his personal and political family.
Much of the work was overseen by Kathy Chung, an executive assistant who had become a gatekeeper for the vice president and an integral part of his personal and political family. In those final days, she went through his small office in the White House, emptying drawers, credenzas and cabinets, all in preparation for transferring his personal and policy papers to a government-funded transition office.
Chung would go on to work as scheduler for other Democratic senators, including Ted Kaufman and Christopher A. Coons, both from Delaware, and Mark Udall of Colorado. Then, in May 2012, her former colleague called to offer her what seemed a great opportunity: to work in the vice president’s office.“Thanks for calling and thinking of me,” she emailed Hunter Biden afterward.
She was there when the Biden family was grappling with the tragic death of Beau Biden from brain cancer in 2015. She was close when Biden considered running for president in 2016 and opted against it. She helped convene family members for important discussions about what he should do after he left elected office for the first time in 44 years.
Chung let family members know that the governor of Delaware was signing a bill to name The Biden Welcome Center, asking if anyone wanted to come to the event. She also sent an invitation to the dedication of a National Guard/Reserve Center that would be named after Beau Biden. During those interviews, when she was asked why some of the documents were found in boxes she had helped pack, she told investigators she was surprised that any classified records were present anywhere in the vice-presidential office. It was standard practice that if national security or intelligence aides brought classified materials to brief Biden, they would immediately return them to a safe, controlled storage site, she said.
She said she had no reason to believe any confidential presidential records remained within the office, as others had the job before her of preparing Biden’s files to transfer to the National Archives, according to a person familiar with her account.
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