Photos: Cesar Chavez: Look back on the civil rights leader’s legacy

President Joe Biden on Friday tweeted a video calling Cesar Chavez “an inspiration to millions,” including him.

“Chavez instilled in our nation the principle that ‘Our ambition must be broad enough to include the needs of others, for their sakes and for our own,’” Biden said in the video, adding that America has no finer role model than Chavez, while displaying a bust of the labor activist positioned behind his desk in the Oval Office.

In a proclamation declaring March 31 as a federal commemorative holiday for him in 2014, former President Barack Obama called Chavez “one of America’s greatest champions for social justice.”

Twenty years earlier, Bill Clinton presented

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