the hard part was then going back and telling the people i hired that i wasn t going to be able to stay. you know, sometimes you gotta be the grown-up. before warren steps aside, some around her have an idea of what she could do next. i wanted barack obama to appoint her to head the agency. she can run for the senate if they don t confirm her. i said, i m sure she wants to be a senator. if she wants your job, she has to start somewhere. she was untested but proved very quickly in that senate race, she s got that. the winter of 77. i first met james in 5th grade. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn t stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story.
long time ago, they call her pocohantas. now, we have a president who can t make it through a ceremony honoring native-american war r heroes without reducing native history and native culture and native people to be the butt of a joke. when confronted about calls for her to settle the issue of her heritage by taking a dna test, warren dismisses the suggestion. what s wrong with knowing? i do know. i know who i am. never used it for anything. never got any benefit from it anywhere. you begin to wonder, is this going to become similar to hillary clinton s e-mails, an issue that keeps come coming up over and over again. republicans will bring it up. every time somebody wants to talk about my family or attack or throw out some kind of racial slur i m going to use it as a
that she s genuine. they looked at that and said, boy, that sounds kind of like there s a calculation there. everybody we talked to kind of said the same thing and gave us the same information, that it didn t play any role in her employment. i never got any benefit for my native american heritage. the people who hired me have been absolutely clear on this point that they didn t know and didn t care. her responses don t satisfy everyone. warren wins the party s endorsement at the june convention. her republican opponent scott brown raises the native american issue to attack her character during their first debate hosted by wbz-tv boston. professor warren claimed she was a native american, a person of color. she s not. that may have backfired. a lot of people did see it as at least somewhat racially charged, because he was talking about her appearance. i believed my mother and my father and my aunts and my uncles.
she has ingratiated herself to colleagues by not being a publicity hog, by campaigning for them, putting her celebrity at their disposal. she earns a reputation for being laser focused, often dashing through the halls sidestepping reporters while her aides try to keep up. think of other senators like mccain is taking his time and chatting with everybody. that s definitely not warren. most of what you see her doing is walking fast through the halls. usually like carrying some literature to read and getting ready to question somebody in a hearing. i believe in what the democrats are fighting for. early on, warren rises in the democratic party. still, she s not afraid to go against president obama on his policies. are you ready to fight? all right. no more secret trade deals. and his appointments. she opposed larry summers as
taxpayer money to bail out the country s financial institutions. essentially, the economy and all the banks don t go down on top of each other. at the same time, congress creates a commission to watch over the program and to study possible regulatory reforms. the motion is adopted. professor warren is tapped for the job. i am at home in cambridge. the phone rings. this man says, harry reid. i said who? he said, harry reid. the leader of the united states senate. i want you to come to washington. i want you to do something for me and the country. try to put accountability on how this bailout goes forward to try to hold these banks accountable for the money they were getting. right on the spot i just said yes. she had written a book about how two wage earners have a