Reader of the Month
Published: November, 2001
Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr.
PROFESSION: Mayor, City and County
of San Francisco
FERRY COMMUTER: No, but I was an early and important backer of the Water Transit Authority.
PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY KNEW: I would be surprised if there’s anything left to be surprised about after forty years of investigations.
IF I HAD A FREE DAY, I’D SPEND IT: The entire day at the movies.
MY PROUDEST MOMENT WAS: I’ve had so many high points, I can’t pick just one. Graduating from college, then law school; elected to the Legislature, getting on the Ways and Means Committee, becoming Speaker, becoming Mayor. And I’ve got four healthy children.
HOW I WOULD LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED: That I served with unlimited energy and commitment, in whatever capacity I occupied. And that I was always fun.
PET PEEVE: Absence of commitment.
HOBBIES: Attending cultural performances.
FAVORITE BOOK: Anything by Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, and biographies and autobiographies.
FAVORITE FILM: Gone with the Wind
IF I COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT MYSELF, IT WOULD BE: I’d be faster than Michael Jordan, deadlier on the golf course than Tiger Woods and a better home run hitter than Barry Bonds.
IF I COULD INVITE FOUR PEOPLE TO DINNER - LIVING OR DEAD – THEY WOULD BE: Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Cronkite.
IF I COULD PLAY A SONG FROM THE TOP OF THE FERRY BUILDING: I Left My Heart in San Francisco
