From left: Jill, Joe and Naomi Biden.Photo: Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
There hasn’t beena wedding in the White Housesince the Nixon administration. But that could soon change.
Earlier this month, Naomi Biden, granddaughter of PresidentJoe Bidenand step-granddaughter of First Lady Dr.Jill Biden,announced her engagementto longtime boyfriend Peter Neal.
If the couple is thinking of tying the knot in the historic home at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., they haven’t put in an official request.
“We haven’t been asked yet,” Dr. Biden, 70,toldThe New York Timesin an interview published Sunday when asked about hosting the nuptials at the presidential residence in Washington, D.C.
Naomi Biden/Instagram
Naomi, 27, is a graduate of Colombia Law and the eldest daughter of the president’s son Hunter Biden and Hunter’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle Biden.
It’s safe to say that if she and her fiancé — who reportedly interned for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and at the White House duringBarack Obama’s presidency — decide they’d like to hold a wedding at the White House, they won’t have trouble reaching their busy grandparents.
“Every single day, I speak to all five of my grandkids. Either on the phone, or I text with them,” President Bidentold Anderson Cooperin March 2020.
“He’ll pick up our calls no matter where he is,” Naomi said in aninterview withPBS Newshourin 2020. “He’ll be onstage, giving a speech, and we’d call him and he’d be like, ‘What’s wrong?!’ "
“We’ve grown up together,” Naomi added of the family. Her grandfather had “made sure that every single tradition, every holiday, we’re all together … I don’t think there’s been any decision, no matter how big or small, that we haven’t decided as a family.”
From left: First Lady Pat Nixon, President Richard Nixon, Tricia Nixon and Edward Finch Cox.Bettmann/Getty
There’s a long history of White House weddings.
In 1967, Lynda Johnson, daughter of President Lydon Baines Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson, married Marine Capt. Charles Robb in a ceremony in the East Room.
Tricia Nixon and Edward Finch Cox’s wedding at the White House.Bettmann/Getty
source: people.com
