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    'I'm emancipated now': Nancy Pelosi enjoying life after leadership

    by Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times Mar 22, 2023 9 minutes
    Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., speaks to reporters inside the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 27, 2023, in Washington, DC.

    WASHINGTON — "Now we're going to have some fun," Rep. Nancy Pelosi says enthusiastically, winning a giggle from her daughter.

    It's a little past 6:30 p.m. on a recent Thursday. The former House speaker is sitting in a packed black SUV with a reporter on her left, a driver and a member of her security detail in the front, and her daughter Christine and two top congressional aides squeezed into the backseat.

    The group is en route from the Swedish Embassy, where Pelosi was the keynote speaker at an event supporting Ukraine, to the St. Regis Hotel for "Thank You, Madam Speaker," a reception celebrating her legacy.

    The Los Angeles Times spent a day with Pelosi, D-Calif., and her team to see how the former House speaker is adjusting to life outside of leadership. She began it with ice cream for breakfast and finished it church-style dancing to a performance of the Resistance Revival Chorus.

    "You never can dance too much," she advises.

    This is Pelosi in her newest chapter, living her best life without the stresses of having to steer congressional Democrats past political pitfalls and through policy quicksand. Her colleagues say she's essentially a national congresswoman — a woman who represents a single district but has a platform that extends far beyond the borders of San Francisco — and is someone other Democrats look to for advice and wisdom.

    Pelosi, 82, insists that she's not looking over the

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