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As Joseph R. Biden Jr. mulls another run for the White House, the former vice president traveled to South Carolina Tuesday to fulfill a duty that underscores his ties to a bygone era.
Biden, the most prolific eulogist in American politics, found himself in another house of worship on Tuesday morning, bidding farewell to another former Senate colleague, South Carolina’s Ernest F. Hollings, a southern Democrat who once advocated segregation but later honored a judge who fought it.