Texas, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Cecile Richards

...fun? Sure. [Laughs] I grew up in Texas . I was born in Waco and grew up in ...
...what we called a housewife in Dallas, Texas , but involved in all kinds o...
...first woman governor of the state of Texas elected in her own right in 1990...
...I moved to the Rio Grande border of Texas and worked organizing garment workers...
...Louisiana, cleaning hotel rooms or East Texas working in nursing homes—they're th...

...of those people are now in office in Texas . I love to think about the first Obam...
...I'm like, “Just send me out to East Texas and West Texas.” But I felt an enormou...
...send me out to East Texas and West Texas .” But I felt an enormous pride. Prid...
...And then there was horrific flooding in Texas and the president had to fly down t...
...and the president had to fly down to Texas and do the things presidents do, brin...
...call from our health center in Houston, Texas . They said, “We just had to tell yo...
...maybe just that one woman in Houston, Texas . And I'm sure that wasn't the onl...
...the line.” We had the opportunity in Texas . Texas had already passed almost ever...
...line.” We had the opportunity in Texas. Texas had already passed almost every ba...
...Little did we know what was coming in Texas this last year. But in any case, ...
...tennis shoes and filibustered. The Texas State Capitol, there'd never been thi...
...the dam from breaking over women in Texas , and that Barack Obama was payin...
...as we're seeing even now, right now in Texas , the courage of abortion providers i...
...the courage of abortion providers in Texas today, talking about what it's like t...
...this is coming up, of course, now in Texas , where SB7 [Senate Bill], which I kno...
...in the US. I look at my home state of Texas , where a group that has held power fo...