I'm

I'm Jonathan Cape Heart and welcome to Cape Up.

Long before people started swooning over Congresswoman Val Demings of Florida as a possible

vice president for Joe Biden, folks were talking about Senator Kamla Harris of California.

Back in January 2019, a few weeks before Harris announced her own since disbanded presidential campaign,

I sat with her in front of a live audience at George Washington University for the kickoff tour for her book The Truths We Hold.

Because Harris's book is a memoir, our conversation was heavy on stories about her

parents, her upbringing, and her career.

There's no better way to get to know this possible vice president than listening right now.

Senator Harris, thank you very much for being here, for choosing Washington to be the kickoff of your book tour

thank you or actually to be correct books tour as we see. The truths we hold in American journey and then

also superheroes are everywhere. I'm going to focus on the truth we hold. And I'm going to

focus on something that happens before even page one. And I want to clear it up for anyone who might have done this or is still doing

this despite hearing it said correctly the first time.

Pronouncer name.

Kamala.

So just think of like the punctuation mark a comma and that add a law and there you go.

And so then what does Kamala mean then?

So it's a very traditional classic Indian name and it derives from Sanskrit and it means the

lotus flower and so and it's it's very prevalent in a lot of Asian cultures and

the idea the symbolism is that the

Lotus Flower sits on water but it never really gets wet. The water beads off of it and

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