Jill Biden describes White House pain: "We were alone on the threshold of power, putting loyalty ahead of emotions

What goes on inside the house of the president of the most powerful country in the world? Are there the same dilemmas as ordinary homes? Former US First Lady Jill Biden's new book 'View from the East Wing' has lifted the curtain on this mystery. Jill, the wife of former President Joe Biden, describes the pain, loneliness and confusion of a politician's wife that she felt while living on the world's most powerful threshold. Jill has admitted that before that historic June 2024 debate, when she saw Joe Biden, he looked "lifeless like a clay statue". The colour was pale. Jill sensed something was wrong, but she kept quiet. During the debate, Biden stumbled on the stage. Jill, who was watching this on TV, said, 'Oh my God! The most emotional and shocking revelation in the book is when Jill reveals that Biden had stage 4 prostate cancer, which had spread to his bones. However, she did not speak directly to her husband about it. "There has always been a 'veil of privacy' in our relationship when it comes to personal health," Jill wrote, adding that secrecy continued even after losing her young son, Bo Biden, to brain cancer in 2015. Generational distance and pressure of loyalty Jill described her silence in a recent interview as generational. According to White House affairs expert and senior journalist Katie Rogers, the book shows how loyalty is placed above everything else at the top of power. Jill was a modern working woman who, despite being the First Lady, taught at a college, while on the other hand she was bound by an old-fashioned marriage rules, where her husband's feelings took precedence over his health. Jill also mentions the moment in the book when Biden called Kamala Harris to tell her that he was withdrawing from the presidential race. According to Jill, Harris said, "Can you do this quickly, in 20 minutes?" Jill said in a recent interview that she had no intention of running for a second term when she decided to run for president for the first time in 2020. But party leaders and advisors pushed and they fought back. Jill claims they would have won if they hadn't walked off the field.