"He noted the 'long, troubled and proud history' of Chinese Americans in this city, laced with racism and neglect, and acknowledged twice the key role his longtime friend and Chinatown political power broker, Rose Pak, played in him becoming mayor.
"'Now, today, Rose, our struggle, our struggle is here, and it is succeeding,' Lee said."
John Coté in the San Francisco Chronicle reports the inauguration of Edwin M. Lee as San Francisco's first-ever Chinese-American mayor.
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