The first woman vice president of the United States has big jobs to do.
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San Francisco When Kamala Harris moved into the White House at the side of the newly sworn president in January, Joe Biden had assured her one thing: she would always be the last person in the room when difficult decisions were made. Biden kept this promise when he decided in the spring whether he should withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by September 11, as Harris told CNN.
What exactly she advised him to be the last in the room is not known. But when the troop withdrawal of the Americans recently turned into a disaster, she stood behind the president: “It was the right decision,” she wrote on Twitter – knowing that the debacle will also stick to her as Vice President.
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