March 18, 2014 by Bloomberg News - Excerpted
Vice President Joe Biden wandered a little off course on a trip down memory lane today.
“Fifteen years ago, I was honored, as the chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, to lead the fight for Poland’s admission into
NATO,” Biden said in Warsaw during a visit designed to reassure
America’s Eastern European allies in the wake of Russia’s move to take
control of Crimea.
The only problem: Biden wasn’t chairman back then.
March 12, 1999: Poland Joins NATO
Biden served as chairman from 2001 to 2003
It was Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican, who guided the
committee and launched the floor debate on granting NATO accession to
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Biden did lead minority
Democrats in approving the treaty resolution, after having initially
expressed doubts about the political viability of expanding NATO
Vice President Joe Biden is a man of his words.......
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