An epilogue that has a few little stories that we may get into. But my father was not expected to live through the election and literally survived to see his son get elected again. My father's pursuit in 1967, 68, to run for elected office back in the time, the vernacular of the 60s, solving ignorance and poverty and disease. SARS Shriver, Bobby Kennedy, those were the heroes. Those are my heroes today, again, through the lens of my father and those ambitions, that sense of pride that I think is so defined in that era in terms of politics and public service. (22:28–22:38)
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Asserts that Gavin Newsom's father pursued elected office in the 1960s to address ignorance, poverty, and disease.
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