Gavin Newsom: “My great, great grandfather lived through, you know, during…”

“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. And, and all of that and all the FBI files. It's so. It echoes today.” (1:01:02–1:01:06)

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