He insisted such an end date was hardly news. “I never, ever planned to go beyond Joe Biden’s first term — even if he gets a second term I don’t plan on being there for that,” he said.
Still, the emergence of even a soft target date was notable.
In an interview in September 2021, he said he was not really thinking about when he would step down, but was working on a memoir and could not contract with a publisher until he left government service.
“I’m not completely crazy to think that I’m going to be doing this when I’m 92,” he said. “But right now, when you’re caught up in this incredible, intense activity, you don’t really think about retiring. You think about ending this pandemic, you know, putting it in the rearview mirror, and then maybe taking a deep breath and thinking about retiring.”
What’s more, he added, “As soon as I retire, you will see a book.”
In an interview in January, he said that he would not let Republicans force him out, and that his timetable would be his own. In a quick text conversation in May, he was asked to respond to reports that he was about to step down.
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