Damon Lindelof was impressed by Nancy Pelosi at a fundraiser he & his wife hosted: “The first thing she did was walk into our kitchen and introduce herself to the caterers and waitstaff & thank them. This was not done for show. It was genuine gratitude”
story,” says Jeff Zucker, CNN chief and WarnerMedia chairman of news and sports. “She knows how to play him better than anyone else.”
In Washington, Pelosi is everything that Trump is not — an expert in the legislative process, a prodigious fundraiser for fellow members of her party, a believer in what she calls the “noble calling” of public service and a sophisticated dealmaker who understands the art of the compromise. She’s the savvy insider who feels duty-bound as a patriot to battle what she sees as the president’s radical agenda and ethically bankrupt practices.
“For her to have the speakership at this moment in history is such a vital balance in the force of what the entire nation is challenged by in this president,” McGrath says. “She’s wildly empathetic, effective and fierce. That’s the greatest definition of a public servant.” Longtime friends and colleagues say that with Pelosi, what you see is what you get. She’s warm, charismatic, funny and kind. She’s also relentless when in pursuit of a goal, tough as nails and a fierce negotiator. Away from the House floor, she has a full life as a mother of five, a grandmother and a wife to her husband of 56 years, San Francisco-based real estate developer and investor Paul Pelosi. She also has a passion for entertainment and the performing arts.
Pelosi is extraordinarily attentive to her friendships and professional relationships, particularly the 218-plus members of the House Democratic Caucus. Most weekends, she gets on a plane to attend a fundraiser or civic event to lend her star power to another House Democrat. When she’s involved with glitzy fundraisers, she always brings a rising Democratic star or two along to give them vital exposure. She has cultivated a network of influential supporters and fans in entertainment.
David Zaslav, president-CEO of Discovery Inc. and a close friend of the Pelosis, got a call from the speaker on Jan. 15, the day she signed the articles of impeachment against President Trump. She was phoning to chide Zaslav for not mentioning that his birthday was approaching when they had dinner with a large group a few nights before. “I said, ‘Nancy, you’ve got a lot on your plate. You’ve got to hang up the phone.’ And we talked for 45 minutes,” Zaslav says.
Davis observes that at this year’s event, on the heels of the impeachment process, Pelosi got not just a standing but a “roaring ovation.”Davis has known Pelosi for years, having met her through a mutual friend in San Francisco, Jo Schuman Silver, producer of the city’s long-running “Beach Blanket Babylon” comedy musical revue. Pelosi is a wonderful dinner party guest but an even better leader.
“If there was anything that we saw as a weakness in her first term as speaker, it was that she was not adept at the public-speaking role. There were gaffes,” says Cindy Simon Rosenthal, retired director of the University of Oklahoma’s Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center and co-author of the 2010 book “Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics.” “But she’s really mastered that now in a way that completes the package.
As a matter of political strategy, Pelosi is facing scrutiny of House Democrats’ decision to go forward with the impeachment of Trump following the whistleblower’s report last summer that Trump held up military aid to Ukraine for political purposes. Some observers see the process as having backfired on Democrats by encouraging Republicans to rally around the president.
Pelosi praises the “moral courage” that it took for House Democrats to investigate the Ukraine situation and ultimately make the case that the president crossed legal and ethical lines in the effort to persuade Ukrainian officials to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden, who had business dealings in the country.
“At least on the basics of infrastructure, there seems to be some common purpose” with Republicans, Pelosi says. “Now we have to agree on how to pay for it. We could have paid for it instead of giving tax cuts to the richest, because [infrastructure spending] would have brought money back into the system.”
Pelosi was born into a political dynasty — her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., represented Baltimore in the House for eight years, followed by 12 years as the city’s mayor during his only daughter’s formative years. Her brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III, also served as mayor of Baltimore from 1967-71. The deep satisfaction of being able to generate resources and support for such a devastating crisis was energizing. Pelosi dug into her work on the Appropriations and Intelligence committees. After Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential election, she was frustrated but well positioned to push for an overhaul of Democratic strategy for winning national elections, and she began to move into leadership positions in the House.
“The scholarly history of her era will treat her very well,” Rosenthal says. “She’s shown herself to be President Trump’s most formidable adversary. She will also go down in history as someone who fought to protect the institution of Congress as a co-equal branch of government.” “We’re not looking to keep Pelosi because there’s a progressive running against her who supports Medicare for All and the Green New Deal among other things,” actor Susan Sarandon tweeted about Buttar on Feb. 22.Longtime Pelosi supporters say they have no doubt she will remain a strong and effective leader even at a time of restlessness among different flanks of Democrats.
Pelosi was strongly considering ending her storied run in Congress after the 2016 presidential election. She was “gutted,” in the words of one source, by Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump. She was equally disturbed by the subsequent Republican assault on Obamacare, after she worked so hard to make landmark healthcare reform a reality. Those two events have given her renewed energy for her work in the most trying of times.
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