Not quite two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, the threat of political violence would come for Nancy Pelosi's husband at their home. The escalating political rhetoric and violence in America serves as the opening and closing message of Pelosi’s new book, “The Art of Power, My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House.
FILE - Rep. Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., left, and her husband, Paul, watch during Game 4 in the first round of the NBA basketball playoffs between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings in San Francisco , April 23, 2023. FILE - Rep. Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., and her husband Paul Pelosi arrive for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House, June 22, 2023, in Washington.
She twice won the speakers gavel, worked alongside seven presidents and, more recently, played a pivotal role in quietly convincing President The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848. “It still took three hours from the time I was dragged out of the House chamber for the Guard to arrive at the Capitol complex,” she writes. “It took about three and a half hours to clear the rioters from the building.”
“When I became Speaker, I knew that I was making myself into a target,” she writes. “However, our accepting the risk is something that is fundamentally different for our families.” The attacker was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison. But Pelosi writes, the story of Paul’s attack would not go away.Pelosi said her children told her that for a long time Paul would only sleep in the bedroom when she was there. He still suffers from headaches and dizzy spells, and she said she has seen him faint and fall twice from vertigo. As of February, she wrote, she was still changing bandages from surgery on his arm.
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