President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden wave Wednesday, January 20, 2021, as they walk along Pennsylvania Ave. to the White House during the inaugural parade. | Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz via Wikimedia Commons
Part VII of Joe Biden’s Unauthorized Presidential Book Project
On March 30, 2024, this column did what some writers consider an unthinkable but perhaps a classic piece about an American “Conjugal Presidency” Pushes Perfect Easter Message?
To our limited knowledge, nobody has used the phrase “conjugal presidency” before in American politics and applied it to describe a “First Couple.” However, Filipino writers used ” conjugal dictatorship ” in Philippine politics in the late 1960s.
Here are the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the said column, which is Part VI of this series about the unauthorized books about President Biden:
QUOTE. After this columnist read The White House bulletin, he thought he might be the first wordsmith to dub the Biden Administration a “Conjugal Presidency.” Why not?
Dr. Jill Biden has acted (and continues to perform superlatively) in this writer’s viewpoint not just as the First Lady but also as a “Co-President.” Yes, especially insofar as the healthcare needs of the American people are concerned. She has taken the initiative since Day One of the Biden Administration in coordinating efforts—through the proper governmental channels—to fight the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. UNQUOTE.
Why does a group of Filipino wordsmiths try to “write” about Biden’s presidential history? After Mr. Biden became the president-elect in December 2020, this Filipino journalist decided to write articles about his coming presidency. He wanted to give the incoming president ideas to make his presidency unique and successful, like his idea of a “Biden Back-to-Basics Doctrine.”
“Book Four talks about “Biden’s Cancer Moonshot” and the first American Medical Center built overseas in 1903 in the City of Manila, the then-colony of the United States called the “Philippine Islands.”
A New York-based Filipino-American publisher, Jobo Elizes, found this column’s essays about Mr. Biden and American politics exciting and innovative. Mr. Elizes was given the authority to reprint the column articles and notes previously published in the Philippine Daily Mirror and on Facebook. Mr. Elizes published three books about the Biden presidency in 2023 and 2024. Interested readers may search Amazon Books for “Mabuhay Writings.”
So far, three books about the Biden Administration have been published under “Mabuhay Writings.” The fourth book is about Biden’s Cancer/Medical Moonshot, which is being finalized.
This columnist does not intend to become a presidential historian. His motivation was to suggest doable projects to an American president for historians to write about after the end of his presidency. Even if The White House Press Office did not officially acknowledge the three books about President Biden, nobody in his Administration contacted this author to stop the book project. Nobody called to prohibit Publisher Elizes from using photos of President Biden on the three book covers.
Book Four talks about “Biden’s Cancer Moonshot” and the first American Medical Center built overseas in 1903 in the City of Manila, the then-colony of the United States called the “Philippine Islands.” This columnist suggested that President Biden should emulate President William McKinley in ordering the building of such a Medical Center.
The coming book also tells of President Biden’s successful stewardship of the nation’s fight against the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus. This columnist, as principal author, will also invite his fellow columnists in the Philippine Daily Mirror, like Crispin Fernandez, M.D., and others, to update their writings about the COVID-19 virus so that they could be included in Book IV of the Biden Series.
In hindsight, perhaps Democratic presidential aspirants in 2028 will understand and realize that the projects proposed in this column for President Biden could have been learned, or at least started, before 2024 and helped the Democratic Party retain the White House and the U.S. Congress in the November 5, 2024, elections. But as this columnist says, “Oftentimes, some politicians snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
