Biden Quips About Lost Job as He Honors Coppola, Grateful Dead

December 8, 2024, 11:36 PM UTC

Joe Biden joked with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola about the looming end of his presidential term as he hosted this year’s Kennedy Center honorees at the White House, saying he’ll soon be looking for a job.

Coppola, 85, was among the award recipients being feted Sunday in Washington, along with the Grateful Dead, singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt and jazz trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval. Biden also name-checked actor Robert De Niro, whom Coppola famously directed in The Godfather Part II.

“Francis, I’m looking for work in February,” Biden said at a White House reception for the ...

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