(Adds detail on Biden’s family)
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden is
in Delaware this week to get ready for his daughter Ashley’s
wedding, with the reception to take place at his home, the White
House said on Tuesday.
“As any father would, he takes this matter very seriously
and looks forward to it with great happiness for his daughter
and his future son-in-law,” White House spokesman Jay Carney
told reporters at a briefing dominated by tensions in Syria.
“And I have no details on the dress,” he said.
Ashley, a 30 year-old social worker, is the vice president’s
only daughter with his wife Jill.
He had three children with his first wife Neilia, who was
killed in a car crash along with their infant daughter Naomi
shortly after his election to the U.S. Senate in 1972. Their two
sons, Beau and Hunter, were also in the car but survived.
Beau is now Attorney General of Delaware and second son
Hunter is also a lawyer.
(Reporting By Laura MacInnis; Editing by Philip Barbara and
Sandra Maler)
