The moment Jerry Brown found politics
Clip: 9/15/2023 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
While at the Governor's Mansion, Jerry Brown overheard his father talking politics.
While studying for the bar exam at the Governor's Mansion, Jerry Brown overheard his father talking politics. "There was a vitality and intensity, maybe like watching an exciting movie," recalls Brown. "But it wasn't a movie; it was a reality that was imaginable for me to be a part of."
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The moment Jerry Brown found politics
Clip: 9/15/2023 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
While studying for the bar exam at the Governor's Mansion, Jerry Brown overheard his father talking politics. "There was a vitality and intensity, maybe like watching an exciting movie," recalls Brown. "But it wasn't a movie; it was a reality that was imaginable for me to be a part of."
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- Leaving the seminary and going to Berkeley, encountering these totally different world ideas, living at the international house, that's exciting.
After I went to Yale Law School, I studied for the bar in Sacramento at the Governor's Mansion.
I was just looking at law books falling asleep, it's so tedious, and then I'd walk down the stairs.
I saw my father and I could hear him.
They were talking about who's gonna run for governor, Pat Brown, or the speaker, Jesse Unruh.
I found that very exciting.
There was a vitality and intensity, maybe like watching an exciting movie but it wasn't a movie, it was a reality that was imaginable for me to be a part of.
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