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Article: Biden Ends Presidential Campaign; Senator Vows to Rebuild Image, Focus on Bork Hearings
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- The Washington Post
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- September 24, 1987
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Acknowledging "mistakes," Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) ended
his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday
but vowed to rebuild his reputation so that when there are "other
presidential campaigns . . . I'll be there."
The 44-year-old chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, beset
for almost two weeks by reports of plagiarism in campaign speeches
and law school and of exaggeration of his academic record, said at a
crowded Capitol Hill news conference that he had decided he could not
simultaneously deal with those charges, wage a presidential campaign
and preside over the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee
Robert H. Bork.
"There'll be other ...