Gavin Newsom: “My father was more of an episodic figure in my life.”

“Single mom, divorced father after just a few years. A mom that worked two, three jobs all her life that came from no wealth, no privilege. My father was more of an episodic figure in my life. And part of those episodes were shaped by the relationship with the Gettys but by no stretch of the imagination was that the dominant frame of my childhood and even my adulthood.” (05:01–05:05)

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