Show Notes
The Speaker: A New Podcast on Nancy Pelosi's Unlikely Path to Power
Ahead of Nancy Pelosi's retirement, KQED's Scott Shafer traces her improbable 1987 rise in a new podcast The Speaker: How Nancy Pelosi Changed the Face of Power. The first episode revisits her primary against Democratic Socialist Harry Britt, who had hoped to become San Francisco's first openly gay congressman amid the AIDS crisis — a race Pelosi narrowly won on her way to becoming one of the most powerful women in American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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