No longer on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden on Monday delivered a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library designed to help cement his legacy.
Slightly more than a week after dropping out of this year's election, Biden marked the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act by speaking out for the rule of law and democratic principles. All the while, he warned about the threat he sees if Republican Donald Trump returns to the White House.
No one is above the law, Biden said.
Biden followed his denunciations of Trump with a mix of nostalgia for his early days in politics during the era of Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson.
It's a story he's told before, about how he became a public defender and was cornered by Delaware leaders to run for the US Senate. But it's taken on a new resonance as he stares down the final six months of his political career.
Because I got engaged like a lot of you do ... you get engaged and you want to change things, he ...
