In his White House memoir, former President Joe Biden offers an unapologetic defense of his four year tenure that started with his defeat of Donald Trump and ended with Trump's return to power. The 83-year-old Democrat's book, Promise Me, America, is being released Tuesday. In it, Biden points to his lengthy legislative record and rejects criticisms that it intensified inflation and complicated the nation’s recovery from the pandemic that began under Trump. He stands by the deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan – which also started in the previous administration. He credits himself with rehabilitating U.S. international alliances that Trump frayed, and he defends his decision to run again in 2024 — even if that presaged Trump’s second presidency.