Matt Kielty

to not show pride, to not show anger.

He used to tell a story, who knows whether it's true, because it's such a great story, where he ran for class president in the eighth grade and he lost by one vote.

And do you know whose vote it was?

His own.

His own vote.

One vote was his.

He voted for the other person.

He was so self-hating that he couldn't bring himself to vote for himself.

God, the poor guy.

But he believed in himself enough to run, but not enough to... What a puzzle there.

Yeah, he's a tangled web.

When I was looking through his personal archives, I found a letter from an early girlfriend that actually said to him, the thing I love most about you, John, is your absolute humility.

But... You know, this is one of the things that animated him was his own lack of confidence in himself.

He would later become class president.

Attended this fancy private school in the Bay.

He was valedictorian.

He got into Yale and Harvard.

But he chose to stay in California.

Santa Clara University, went on to Santa Clara Law, was valedictorian everywhere he went.

Graduates top of his law class.