It was "beneath the dignity of the institution I revere", Biden said in a statement.
They, who are supposed to love and revere Britain and its great, world-leading history.
Favourite musicals tend to have a few decades on the clock: people who revere Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma or one of the Sondheims were often born long after the shows were premiered.
No longer trying to figure out, as we've all had to recently, what's prurient, what's necessary, what bears witness to horror but doesn't somehow revere the brutality.
Yet as one of Japan's most powerful lobby groups it has a shopping list of nationalist, indeed blatantly revisionist, causes: applaud Japan's wartime "liberation" of East Asia from Western colonialism; rebuild the armed forces; inculcate patriotism among students brainwashed by left-wing teachers; and revere the emperor as he was worshipped in the good old days before the war.
The Kakai, a small, secretive group, are monotheistic and revere Imam Ali, the hero of Shia Islam.
Many members, especially in the eastern part of Java, Indonesia's most populous island, revere Mr Wahid not just as a political leader but as a sage and holy man.
A measure of its significance is the number of people who will dislike it current welfare providers, teachers and those who revere the separation of church and state.
(Many Bahraini Shias prefer to look for inspiration to Ali al-Sistani, still Iraq's most revered Shia ayatollah; some revere Lebanon's late Sheikh Muhammad Fadlallah).
FEW sports revere tradition quite as much as cricket.
Because its promise of mutual support in adversity is as much about the fans who sing it as the team they revere.
