Gavin Newsom: “Kennedy was willing to take a risk, do the right thing.”

“I tell people all the time going into that election, if you look at the polling, Richard Nixon was getting the majority of the black vote. Even afterwards, 28% of that vote still went to Richard Nixon. But it sent a message that Kennedy was willing to take a risk, do the right thing. And I'll always believe that in spite of what was done back in 1948, Harry Truman, what he did in 1948, when they integrated the armed services, when Franklin Roosevelt had refused to do so, it was.” (14:10–14:13)

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