Silicon Valley’s silent power


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  • Wednesday, 30 Oct 2024

A file photo of Powell Jobs attending a Presidential Medal of Freedom award ceremony hosted by Biden at the White House in Washington, on July 7, 2022. Powell Jobs visited the Biden-Harris White House nine times, including in 2022 to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her husband, Steve Jobs. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

WHEN Kamala Harris was sworn in as a US senator in January 2017 by then-Vice President Joe Biden, she posed for the customary family photo in the Capitol. But Harris wasn’t finished.

She waved over a dozen more people, saying, “Come on, everybody. My extended family is here.”

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