The Times reported helicopters, military aircraft, government vehicles, and scores of Secret Service agents have descended on the island, now well into its usually sleepy off-season. This year’s visit marks Biden’s first as president, which means his arrival brought a bit more fanfare than before. The family was also unable to revisit in 2019 and again in 2020 due to Biden’s campaign trail travel commitments and COVID-19 pandemic health and safety concerns, respectively. The Bidens took a hiatus from their annual trip in 2015, months after Beau Biden died of brain cancer, and opted to visit Rome instead that year, according to The New York Times. “We had some great years in that span, and we had some lousy years, but whatever was happening, whatever bumps and bruises we were suffering, we put it all aside and celebrated Thanksgiving in Nantucket,” Biden wrote. Over the decades since, the trips to Nantucket have become a fond staple of Biden’s holiday traditions and one now beloved by generations of Bidens. “Only Wes Barthelmes was a Boston guy, so what he actually said was ‘nucle-aah Thanksgiving.’ I wasn’t sure what exactly he was trying to say, until he explained it might be easiest on everybody if the four of us-me and Jill, Beau and Hunt-went away alone.” “I was in my Senate office one day that fall, explaining this predicament to my chief of staff, and he said, ‘What you need is a nuclear Thanksgiving.’ Meaning the nuclear family alone,” he wrote. Biden explained how, that year, his various relatives each requested his family’s presence on Thanksgiving.

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