Ed Wolf worked as a counselor in the AIDS ward at San Francisco General Hospital in the late 1980s, a time when young men were arriving at a relentless pace, gaunt and struggling to breathe, only to die days later.
Well-known figures would drop by to tour the ward, their visits tracked by news cameras. But when Nancy Pelosi spent time there, it was different.
No cameras. No entourage.
Ms. Pelosi, the new member of Congress representing San Francisco at the time, asked the nurses if they had what they needed and if any patients were up for a bedside visit. Then she would slip into their rooms alone
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