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Elizabeth Dole
categories: Interview, Speeches
"A Few Good Women" Interview - Nov. 5, 2007
November 5, 2007
From the "A Few Good Women" Oral History collection created by Barbara Hackman Franklin. The collection consists primarily of oral history interview transcripts, original tape recordings of the interviews, and photographs and related papers donated by the interviewees documenting high-ranking women working in the Nixon administration. Dole was interviewed by Jean O. Rainey. JEAN O. RAINEY: It is Monday, November 5, 2007, and I am in the office of Senator Elizabeth Dole. First, Elizabeth, I want to ask you about your family. You grew up in North Carolina. DOLE: Right. […]
Elizabeth Warren
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Questioning During the Confirmation Hearing of Tom Price - Jan. 18, 2017
January 18, 2017
WARREN: Thank you Mr. Chairman. Congressman Price, more than a 100 million Americans now receive their health care through Medicare and Medicaid programs. These are seniors, people with disabilities, middle-class families who have parents in nursing homes, countless numbers of children and they all benefit from these programs. So I want to understand the changes to Medicare and Medicaid that you have already proposed. The budget that you recently authored as Chair of the House Budget Committee would have cut spending on Medicare by $449 billion over the next decade, […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Speeches
Questioning Betsy DeVos at Senate Confirmation Hearing - Jan. 17, 2017
January 17, 2017
WARREN: We don't have a second round. I asked my staff to pull the records from the hearing we had with King. You said when you called on me, I think we have time for a second round. Senator Warren, you can be the first in the second round. I heard that, I was the only one who stayed and had questions. SEN. ALEXANDER: That is why we had time. WARREN: I understood the people that had questions could ask them. Well we are doing precedents, I understand was the […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Speeches
Confirmation Hearing of Dr. Ben Carson - Jan. 12, 2017
January 12, 2017
WARREN: Dr. Carson, thank you for being here. CARSON: Thank you. WARREN: Before we get into some of the questions that I raised in my letter, to you earlier this week, I just want to get an answer to a –I think a simple yes-or-no question. If you are confirmed to lead HUD, you will be responsible for issuing billions of dollars in grants and loans to help develop housing and provide a lot of housing-related services. Now, housing developments is an area in which President-elect Trump and his family […]
Catherine Cortez Masto
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Confirmation Hearing of Dr. Ben Carson - Jan. 12, 2017
January 12, 2017
CORTEZ MASTO: Thank you Mr. Chair and ranking members of the committee. I look forward to working with all of you. Thank you very much. Dr. Carson, welcome and congratulations on your nomination. And welcome to your wonderful family sitting here with you. There’s been a lot of questions, so with your indulgence, I’m just going to get right to them because it’s getting to be a long day for you. My colleagues have asked a number of questions, and I would like to just reaffirm some of them. In […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks by the First Lady Michelle Obama and Former First Lady Laura Bush - Sep. 16, 2016
September 16, 2016
These remarks were at an event at the National Archives. MR. WOODRUFF: Well, what an honor is it to be here today. I have a chance—first of all, I want to tell both of you that my wife, who is also my commander— MRS. OBAMA: As it should be. (Laughter.) MR. WOODRUFF:—she wanted to say hi to both of you and what you're doing for the veterans out there. I also want to mention, I just had a chance to—and I had the chance to see President Bush at the […]
Laura Bush
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks by First Lady Michelle Obama and Former First Lady Laura Bush - Sep. 16, 2016
September 16, 2016
These remarks were at an event at the National Archives. MR. WOODRUFF: Well, what an honor is it to be here today. I have a chance—first of all, I want to tell both of you that my wife, who is also my commander— MRS. OBAMA: As it should be. (Laughter.) MR. WOODRUFF:—she wanted to say hi to both of you and what you're doing for the veterans out there. I also want to mention, I just had a chance to—and I had the chance to see President Bush at the […]
Michelle Obama
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Remarks during Conversation with Robin Roberts at Working Families Summit - Jun. 23, 2014
June 23, 2014
MS. ROBERTS: Good to see you. MRS. OBAMA: How are you? MS. ROBERTS: Oh, doing well. MRS. OBAMA: Doesn’t Robin look good? (Applause.) MS. ROBERTS: Oh, thank you. MRS. OBAMA: You look good! MS. ROBERTS: You're just saying it because it's true. (Laughter.) But it has been, all day long here, and that lively group discussion which has preceded us, talking about the role of women in the workplace and the fact that nearly half of the workforce is made up of women. Yet when you see the Fortune 500 […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks in Q&A with Children at Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day - Apr. 20, 2016
April 20, 2016
MRS. OBAMA: Well, you guys, welcome to the White House again. How many of you have been here before? Oh, gosh. This is old hat for you guys. All right. So let me tell you this, there’s one thing I would say: Don’t say, “Do you remember me?” Because you guys grow every year and you change so much. So who -- what you looked like last year is very different, because I can see some faces I do remember, and you guys have grown, okay? So stop it. Stop […]
Rosa Parks
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with the Academy of Achievement - June 2, 1995
June 2, 1995
ACADEMY: In 1955 you refused to give up your seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Your act inspired the Montgomery bus boycott, the event historians call the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Could you tell us exactly what happened that day? PARKS: I was arrested on December 1st, 1955 for refusing to stand up on the orders of the bus driver, after the white seats had been occupied in the front. And of course, I was not in the front of the […]