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Gavin Newsom: “I had to go back. That's why it was memoir of discovery, to…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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And this is about also, as you put it, the subtitle about this sort of feeling of discovery here. Yeah. No, it is a memoir discussed five years in the making. Five damn years. Why so long? I had to go back. That's why it was memoir of discovery, to learn not only about myself in relationship to San Francisco and its past, but moreover, to learn about my mom and dad and my grandparents and their parents, and as a consequence, learn more about this state and the state of mind that has defined so much of my childhood here in San Francisco. And you are almost like a Northern California Forrest Gump. I mean, you have lived this life in which there's these incredible cameos from people across American history. Yeah. (02:05–02:28)

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