In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired on Sunday, Joe Biden, who announced this week that he would not run for president, disputed accounts that his son Beau, on death’s door, told him to run for president. “Nothing like that ever, ever happened,” Biden said.

Did Joe Biden use his son’s death to prime the launch of a presidential campaign? Hell yes, reports The Politico.

[Grieving Vice President Joe Biden wept at the public memorial service for his eldest son, who died Saturday of brain cancer. Beau Biden was 46. The receiving line was scheduled to end at 5 p.m., but the VP and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, planned to stay in the receiving line “until the crowd stops coming,” according to pool reports. Photo by Patrick Semansky/AP Images.]

Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden and a former Attorney General of Delaware, has died of brain cancer. He was 46.

Joe Biden's son Beau "will soon be back up and running at full speed" after his mild stroke this week, according to weirdly-phrased message from his wife. One-third of similar patients have another stroke in the future. [Pic: AP]

Beau Biden, the vice president's 41 year-old son and the Attorney General of Delaware, is in the hospital. For some reason. The White House just released the following mysterious statement (Updated below):

It would be completely inappropriate for some loser blogger to call Beau Biden, who just finished a year-long deployment to Iraq, a coward. But the Vice President's kid is a big coward.