Biden offers a message of resilience in America's 'winter of peril' | David Smith's sketch

New president’s inauguration marks a return to the old order, as a longtime moderate prepares to think big

Once a dashing young senator, now a lion in winter, Joe Biden walked up the presidential lectern he could finally call his own after half a century of striving.

The message that the 46th US president wanted to send a pained nation was the one that has defined his own life in the face of incalculable personal and political loss: resilience.