Joe Biden 1974 Classified Docs from lb Notables

Joe Biden's Earliest Days in the Senate as Revealed in a 1974 Interview: Crass and Venal, Using His Office for Monetary Gain

https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/10/21/joe-bidens-earliest-days-in-the-senate-revealed-him-to-be-crass-and-venal-regularly-using-his-office-for-monetary-gain-n266979

The Senator shows a healthy respect for money: “Politics is a damn expensive business. I had one hell of a time trying to raise money as a candidate. I had to put a second mortgage on my house to get that campaign started, and I ended up spending over $300,000 to get elected….

He feels the indignity is compounded by the temptation to sell out to big business or big labor for financial help, and says it’s almost impossible for a candidate to remain true to his conscience in this situation. He admits that more than once he was tempted to compromise to get campaign money. “I probably would have if it hadn’t been for the ramrod character of my Scotch Presbyterian wife,” he say’s. “I am not a rich man. And my family does not have money. If I sold every thing I own, including my house and cars, I could probably’ scratch up S200,000, but that’s nothing compared to most of the guys in the Senate.”

Unlike most other senators, Biden makes no bones about saving he is underpaid. ….“I dont know about the rest of you but I am worth a lot more than my salary of $42,500 a year in this body. It seems to me that we should flat out tell the American people we are worth our salt.”

https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/