The on Thursday played clean up on President 's gaffe when he muddled the Black and Tans, a British force that brutally put down Irish insurgents in the 1920s, with the All Blacks rugby team.'I think for everyone in in Ireland who was a rugby fan, it was incredibly clear that the president was talking about the All Blacks and Ireland's defeat of the New Zealand team in 2016,' said Amanda Sloat, senior National Security Director for Europe, during a morning briefing. The slip had threatened to overshadow Biden's cross-border activities a day earlier, when he had to walk the fine line of keeping Protestant and Catholic communities happy.
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