At a seminar honoring another man who held his office, former vice president Walter Mondale, Biden said that one of his major roles was to serve as Obama's top emissary abroad to global leaders. In those meetings, he said, he served a more important role than other administration officials for delivering messages to the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We’ve had two great secretaries of state, but when I go, they know that I am speaking for the president. There is nothing missed between the lip of the cup, that whatever I say, the president is saying," Biden said at the Mondale forum, run by the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs and hosted on George Washington University's campus.
“We’ve had two great secretaries of state, but when I go, they know that I am speaking for the president. There is nothing missed between the lip of the cup, that whatever I say, the president is saying," Biden said at the Mondale forum, run by the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs and hosted on George Washington University's campus.
