--- title: Richard "Mouse" Smith | TIME description: Smith is the President of the NAACP’s Delaware Branch canonical: https://time.com/author/richard-mouse-smith/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/richard-mouse-smith/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Richard "Mouse" Smith ## Richard "Mouse" Smith Smith is the President of the NAACP’s Delaware Branch ## Richard "Mouse" Smith * ![Richard "Mouse" Smith, left, with President Joe Biden, Madeleine Albright and Adam McBride sometime in the mid '90's. Smith is a Civil Rights leader in Delaware who has been friends with Biden since they were both young and when Biden was a lifeguard at ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22255539a7982d70/698a168297cdff11e46bb9c3/richard-smith-joe-biden-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jan 20, 2021 ### [Biden Was My Best Man. Now He's My President](https://time.com/5931641/joe-biden-richard-mouse-smith/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-mouse-smith/","name":"Richard \"Mouse\" Smith"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-mouse-smith/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/richard-mouse-smith/"},"name":"Richard \"Mouse\" Smith","jobTitle":null,"description":"Smith is the President of the NAACP’s Delaware Branch","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-mouse-smith/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```