“The president wrote a very generous letter,” a tired-sounding Biden said. “Because it was private, I won’t talk about it until I talk to him. But it was generous.” During press secretary Jen Psaki’s first briefing on Wednesday evening, she suggested there was no scheduled call between the two men.

“This is a letter that was private, as he said to you all. It was both generous and gracious, and it was just a reflection of him not planning to release the letter unilaterally, but I wouldn’t take it as an indication of a pending call with the former president,” Psaki said.