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Monitor Daily Podcast

March 04, 2024
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Today we take a deep look at President Joe Biden, courtesy of Washington Bureau Chief Linda Feldmann, a seasoned observer of White House occupants.

Linda was there to read the room recently when customers at a Black-owned barbershop in South Carolina found the president of the United States at their elbow during an impromptu visit. She’s talked with Mr. Biden while he chatted up the press on Air Force One. Those are just two of many encounters. 

“There’s no substitute for seeing a person up close,” Linda says. “You can look [a president] in the eye – and as famous, pilloried, or misrepresented as they may be, you connect with their humanity.”

As we enter a kickoff week for the presidential race, it’s worth connecting with Linda’s profile of a president.


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President Joe Biden gives a thumbs-up before boarding Air Force One, Feb. 16, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

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Ukrainian Olha Poltoratska holds her 9-month-old son, Ruslan, while daughter Dariia looks on, in a converted student dormitory that houses 178 Ukrainians displaced by war, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 14, 2024.

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Terri Accomazzo, editorial director of Angel City Press, shows off books published by the press Jan. 16, 2024. “There’s something really valuable in trying to reflect a true portrait of [Los Angeles],” she says.

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Yoshiko Hidaka (left), the most recent resident of Nagaya Tower, kayaks the Kotsuki River with Kawasaki Masatoshi. Ms. Yoshiko chose their building because she thought it would be easy to make friends among its mix of generations.

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The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 4.

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Displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, try to get internet service on their phones through Egyptian networks, March 4, 2024. The war between Israel and Hamas has made it extremely difficult for people to communicate with family members and friends.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks for joining us as you start your week. Tomorrow, watch for our story from Mexico City-based correspondent Whitney Eulich, on how shelters and clinics serving migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border adapt to ever-changing policies.

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