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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(upbeat music) - Jerry Brown talks about having heard about the places where Ginsburg wrote "Howl" and going to hang out there and listening to jazz.
- 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.
(uplifting music)