Victor Davis Hanson

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2,022 appearances 16 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 23 Mar

Victor Davis Hanson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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No, I don't.

I know that's true.

I had a mother who grew up in the same house that I'm speaking to, and she was the third generation.

So she went – they had no money, but she and her sister went to Stanford University, and then she went to Stanford Law School in the 1940s.

It was kind of unusual.

And they said that she was very –

My mother's name was Davis, and they were Welch, and she was very light-skinned, and she had acne.

So they said at Stanford University they had a new program.

It was brand new, and it was going to have x-rays on young women's skin, face.

And she went in for 50 treatments.

Yes, on her face, too.

And then, oh, 1980, she got a letter and said that we have examined this, and out of the X number of people, this many people got cancer.

And she was healthy.

She was the first second woman appellate court judge in California, second woman to be a superior court judge in Fresno County.

And sure enough, about four years later, she had a meningioma brain tumor.

And they said, don't worry.

It has nothing to do with that study.

It's benign.

And she died two years later.

And it was malignant.

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