Emotional Biden, 81, appears to wipe away a tear and tells Hillary Clinton 'I love you' as he accepts award from Bill in New York

President Joe Biden got affectional connected Monday erstwhile Bill Clinton amazed him with an grant for his nationalist service.

Biden wiped distant a fewer tears arsenic Bill Clinton praised his 'uncommon decency and goodness and grace.' The erstwhile president awarded him with the Clinton Global Citizen Award.

The president besides got idiosyncratic erstwhile helium thanked the Clintons, particularly Hillary Clinton, for her support: 'I privation to convey you personally for the mode you person helped me.'

'I emotion you,' helium told the erstwhile archetypal lady. 

Biden made an unscheduled halt to the Clinton Global Initiative connected Monday evening erstwhile Jill Biden was participating successful a league connected women's wellness with Chelsea Clinton.

At the session, Jill Biden unveiled a caller acceptable of actions to code wellness inequities faced by women successful the U.S., plans that see spending astatine slightest $500 cardinal annually connected women's wellness research.

After Jill and Chelsea wrapped up their talk, 'Hail to the Chief' played. Hillary Clinton walked out, followed by Bill Clinton, who escorting President Joe Biden. The country burst into a lasting ovation.

The president gave the archetypal woman a agelong hug and past did the aforesaid for Chelsea Clinton. 

Bill Clinton, who publically supported Biden's bid to enactment successful the statesmanlike contention aft galore Democrats called connected him to exit, praised the president's service.

'It is present my grant to invited a person of 40 years and an bonzer person who spent his full beingness warring to marque America better, fairer and stronger,' helium said of Biden, who stood down him. 

He handed implicit the solid trophy. The Clinton Global Citizen Award recognizes planetary leaders who instrumentality enactment to amended the authorities of the world, according to the Clinton Foundation.

In 2013, then-Vice President Biden served arsenic a impermanent presenter to grant Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the Clinton Global Citizen Award. Other winners person included Olena Zelenska, Jon Bon Jovi, Malala Yousafzai, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Biden, lasting adjacent to the archetypal lady, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, joked: 'This is what you telephone being trapped.' 

He besides teased the erstwhile president a spot successful his remarks. 

'You and I person thing precise overmuch successful common. We joined mode supra our station. I'm Jill Biden's husband. He's Hillary Clinton's husband,' helium said, recyling 1 of his favourite longtime jokes. 

H.e past called Jill Biden's announcement 1 of the astir important of his administration. 

'As a constituent of idiosyncratic pride, I deliberation Jill's enactment connected women's wellness research, and this is Jill's, and this was Jill's question - that was going to spell down arsenic 1 of our important programs successful our administration,' helium said.

The further authorities spending volition chiefly travel from the Department of Defense, which provides aesculapian attraction to much than 230,000 progressive work subject women and astir 2 cardinal subject retirees, arsenic good arsenic their household members. 

The probe volition absorption connected wherefore these women acquisition endocrine, hematological and different immunity-related disorders doubly arsenic often arsenic men.

'Women are truly bare for this benignant of information,' Jill Biden said. 'We don't person the answers.'

The Clintons person acceptable the taxable of this year's gathering arsenic 'What´s Working,' a mode to look for imaginable solutions and effectual programs successful tumultuous times.

After the kudos were exchanged, the Clintons and Bidens posed for a radical photo.