West Virginia, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History West Virginia, United States Index / Locations Transcripts (22) Courtney Hight ...in EJ communities, like the state of West Virginia . That was also partly why I left was... Frances Beinecke ...requirement than, say, Kentucky or West Virginia or Ohio, that's predominantl... Nancy Nielsen ...were. I grew up in a very small town in West Virginia , and went to West Virginia University... ...mentioned growing up in West Virginia , and having thought about medica... ...you also talked a bit about being from West Virginia , and, at eight years old, knowing yo... Richard Trumka ...executive council in 1890, in Wheeling, West Virginia . We never had a Jim Crow local in th... Sylvia Burwell ...[laughs]. But tell me about Hinton [ West Virginia ], and tell me about the values tha... ...in a very small community in southern West Virginia , in a place where everyone kne... ...Interestingly, we were from southern West Virginia at a time, when West Virginia was ver... ...southern West Virginia at a time, when West Virginia was very Democratic. The joke in Wes... ...was very Democratic. The joke in West Virginia at that time is, we're Yellow Do... ...ago when we were visiting my mother in West Virginia . We were all socially distanced an... ...When you're a merit scholar in southern West Virginia [laughter], that is something tha... Show more... Tom Harkin ...idea was, well, why not do that in West Virginia ? This is hands on. It's manual labor... ...the tops off of mountains [laughs] in West Virginia and doing strip mining and stuff lik... ...with any kind of economic program for West Virginia . Just a couple weeks after the Uppe... John Mier ...school construction which is largely in West Virginia . They build their schools, all publi... ...in Mingo County, the poorest county in West Virginia , if you can come up with ten percent... Nancy Sutley ...I remember a conversation with then West Virginia 's senator, Jay Rockefeller, who sai... ...Rockefeller, who said when people in West Virginia hear about change, their experience... Robert Trapp ...around the country, and I know a guy in West Virginia who does it, and I know a guy in Ohi... ...east. And now Massachusetts, Ohio. Oh, West Virginia , Hey, this is a problem. We need to d... Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Immigration Coming soon Elections and Campaigns Coming soon Education Coming soon