At a White House event to recognize achievements in the arts and humanities on March 21, President Joe Biden offered another hint that he may seek a second term in 2024.
One of the recipients of the 2021 National Humanities Medal was author Colson Whitehead, who had received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2017 and 2020, one of only four people to win the honor twice.
In presenting the medal, the president noted Whitehead’s previous back-to-back wins and quipped, “Pretty good, man! I’m kind of looking for back-to-back myself.”
The remark drew laughter from the crowd assembled in the East Room to see Biden award the 2021 National Medal of Arts to 12 people and organizations that included musicians Bruce Springsteen, Gladys Knight, and Jose Feliciano; and actresses Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mindy Kaling….