Joe Biden: From Stutter To Power

NPR | By Ari Shapiro

Published August 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM EDT

Over the last 35 years, Joe Biden has held some of the most powerful positions in the Senate. He started life as a stuttering child in Scranton, Pa.

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