they stayed for 16 years. having solved the childcare issue, which is an issue for so many women, it propelled her forward. she never would have gone on to become the person she is. aunt bee doesn t solve everything. it causes friction with her husband. he indulged her career and interest in the law but told her that doesn t mean you can stop doing everything at home. the couple divorces in 1980. elizabeth is a single mother at 31 years old at a time when women are struggling to climb the ladder in the workplace. i remember my obsession became balancing my checkbook. i would sometimes late at night after i do my homework and get everything ready for the next day, i go to the bedroom and pull out my checkbook. i would add to make sure i had enough to make it to the next paycheck until the next, until
that raised a lot of questions about why is it that harvard had in a couple of instances listed her as a minority and a native american when there was no apparent proof that she was a native american. it wasn t something that she had talked about. my father s people objected to my mother because she was part cherokee and part delaware. in order to get married, my mother said they had to go elope. my brothers and i grew up with that. i know myself to be a person of native american heritage. she s asked why she listed herself as a minority in the 1980s and 90s. i listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that i would be invited to a lunch, a group, something that might happen with people who are like i am. nothing like that ever happened. that was clearly not the use for it. so i stopped checking it off. i think a lot of folks looked at that and they said, this is
republican budget. that called for eliminating the agency entirely. thar is that right? i don t have a specific recollection. that sound right. the war of words heats up. as the committee continues. it will help banks more than consumers. here s what you don t get. this isn t about me. as long as the cfpb is in business. she will be out spoken. we re here to fight for the bureau. this is her legacy. she thought it up and dreamed it up. and there she she birthed it. and it s under ferocious attack. whether elizabeth warren runs for president. stays in the senate. or something else. she ll continue to be a force to be reckoned with. what this life is about the
beck. i can t believe i live in a country where that agency and practically every other agency is being run by someone in this case it s elizabeth warren who hates the free market system, wants to destroy it and in some cases want a communist socialist utopia. many republicans in congress are also critical. we are unenthusiastic about the possibility of elizabeth warren. we re unenthusiastic about this new agency. the gop revealed plans to smother the little critter and with it its leader warren. the obama administration decides it s polarizing. we can t nominate her. for obama, it was early in his presidency. he wanted to avoid a fight. instead, president obama nominates warren s colleague in july 2011. i asked elizabeth to find the best possible choice for director of the bureau. those who we found in richard. the hard part was then going
i took to law school like a big takes to mud. i mean, this was fabulous. i loved law school. at graduation, she s eight months pregnant with her second child and conflicted about the future. alex was born about three weeks after i graduated. it was the hardest moment in my life. i thought, because i didn t take a job right out of law school, it was all over. liz is never one to sit and feel sorry for herself. she put out a shingle, elizabeth warren, attorney at law. i m doing real estate closings. how the heck do you know how to do real estate closings? this is before the internet. she s like, just looked it up in books. no problem. when the family moves to texas, she joins the university of houston, teaching contract law and courses on business and finance. i am very interested in money.