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The Change of Plans That Made Rufus Cormier a Trailblazer The attorney never wanted to practice law, but he ended up in the middle of history. By Emma Schkloven 12/14/2020 at 6:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Houstonia Rufus Cormier, retired partner at Baker Botts, never planned to go into law. But a campus protest during his junior year at Southern Methodist University changed everything.  It started when the school’s Black students decided to occupy the president’s...

Donald trump and a political appointee, buried everybody, stwlu everybody under the busth bus, perhaps i shouldnt use that phrase, but he was very clear. we all did this because the president directed us to do it, yeah, there was a quid pro quo. >> what has happened to the republican party since the time you were working on the staff of the impeachment investigation, on the republican side? and where we are today? >> well, that was a different era. im so sorry to say. and it was fiercely fought....

Joining us now, the 68th governor of massachusetts and the libertarian partys vice presidential candidate bill weld. thank you for being here. tell us about your days on the watergate committee with hillary clinton and what you observed about her then and what that tells you about her now. >> she is a straight shooter. we were supposed to be and were a unified staff under john doar who was under some pains not to have the staff being partisan. i was hired by the republicans and hillary rodham wa...

government. where do they get that third of funding from? >> where he will, i think the point here is that planned parenthood does abortions. and i think that mitt romney and governor perry and myself do not believe that government should in any way be funding abortions. because so many people dont believe that thats the right thing to do and their taxpayer dollars should not be spent on doing abortions. >> but you disagreed with rick perry on the issue. >> what i disagreed is that the...

>> john doerr. as african-americans strove for justice, john doar helped in civil rights. he prevented a violent riot of paying convictions for civil rights activists and stood bit first african-american student at the university of mississippi on his first day of class. during pivotal moments in civil rights movements and in the troubled times of the watergate scandal, john doar fought to protect the core values of liberty, equality and democracy that has made america a leader among nations. [ ...