President Barack Obama has said he sees Vice President Joe Biden as family.
In an interview with CNN that aired Monday night, Biden revealed a conversation that he had with Obama that proves how close their relationship is.
.@VP: @POTUS offered financial help amid my son's illness https://t.co/9hQLocgkaA https://t.co/wAR3T0ueCV— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 12, 2016
During a weekly lunch, Biden told Obama that he was worried about caring for Beau Biden's family without his son's salary as Delaware's attorney general.
Biden was even thinking of selling his family's Wilmington, Delaware home in order to care for his son's family. Obama, according to Biden, immediately shot that idea down.
"He got up and he said, 'Don't sell that house. Promise me you won't sell the house,'" Biden told CNN's Gloria Borger.
"He said, 'I'll give you the money. Whatever you need, I'll give you the money. Don't, Joe - promise me. Promise me.' I said, 'I don't think we're going to have to anyway.' He said, 'promise me,'" Biden told CNN.
Beau Biden recovered from his stroke and served out his second term as attorney general. He had planned to run for governor in 2016. But Biden, 46, died of brain cancer in May 2015.
Since the death of his son, Biden has wrestled with his grief publicly, including in an emotional interview on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Speechless. Biden recalls Obama telling him "Don't sell that house. Promise me you won't sell the house" https://t.co/ThzUlkj1Tc— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) January 12, 2016
Biden ultimately opted to forego his own presidential run, announcing in a speech at the White House Rose Garden that while he and his family had overcome their grief to commit to a campaign, it was simply too late to enter the race and win.