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Gavin Newsom: “I, you know, wrote a book about my own learning disability.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Published | Video Starts at 49:23

And then at some point, and I bet if you actually laid those translations outside by side, they're not that different. They're not that. I think you were. You were profoundly different. Well, I was trying to find language, period. I, you know, wrote a book about my own learning disability. So just, I mean, literally the words just above my pay grade that needs to be explained to me. I remember it's Shakespeare class in college. I mean, you're toast as a dyslexic. (49:23–49:26)

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