What Nancy Pelosi wants for America — and what she’s done to get it
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Nancy Pelosi is one of the most powerful people in U.S. history. She was first elected to Congress in 1987 at the age of 47 and went on to become the first woman speaker of the House in 2007. She is known as a shrewd politician with an outsize influence over the Democratic Party and the country. Her new book, The Art of Power, details some of the biggest moments in her career. Pelosi sat down with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu to talk about the 2024 race for the White House, American politics today, and her legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shimithe Basu. Today, |
| 0:09.2 | former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on what Democrats need to do to win the White House. On March 20th of 2010, the Catholic priest, Father Theodore Hesburgh, got a phone call |
| 0:26.8 | from a high-ranking politician, someone of deep faith herself. |
| 0:31.0 | I said, Father, I have to admit we're having some difficulty with some of the bishops who refuse |
| 0:37.0 | to accept the fact that we do not have funding for abortion in this bill. |
| 0:41.5 | It was then speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, whose voice you just heard. |
| 0:46.1 | She was trying to get the Affordable Care Act passed through Congress, and she was having trouble |
| 0:50.1 | convincing a few Democratic members to give it their vote. |
| 0:53.0 | Father Hesberg was the president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, |
| 0:58.0 | a leader in the civil rights movement, |
| 1:00.0 | and someone who could have an influence on lawmakers who respected him but had |
| 1:04.7 | reservations about the ACA. So Pelosi said to him, |
| 1:08.8 | I need some help with Congressman Joe Donnelly. Father Hesburgh replied, Well, Congressman The day after that phone call, Congressman Donnelly voted for the ACA, which passed the House. |
| 1:27.0 | President Obama signed it into law two days later. |
| 1:30.0 | Father Hesburgh wasn't the only one Pelosi called in a favor to. |
| 1:34.0 | She even overheard Congressman Donnelly talking with other members of Congress |
| 1:38.0 | about how she convinced them to vote for it. |
| 1:40.0 | And I hear him, them paying their notes, But then he said, you see what she did to me. She had |
| 1:45.9 | Father Hesper. It's like the Pope was calling me. What was I supposed to do? |
| 1:51.2 | This is the power of former speaker Nancy Pelosi. |
| 1:54.0 | It's what makes her such a skilled politician. |
| 1:56.0 | She knows how to bring people to her side, |
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