Gavin Newsom: “My grandfather lived through as a prisoner of war.”

“But what many of you have lived through, going back decades and decades, what our grandparents lived through, My grandfather lived through as a prisoner of war. you know, but my great, great grandfather lived through, you know, during the Red Scare. And I write about his relationship to Oppenheimer and Linus, Pauline. He was his doctor.” (1:00:58–1:01:01)

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