Washington, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History Washington, United States Index / Locations Transcripts (229) Heather Zichal ...is about an hour outside of Washington, DC , and during the pandemic this is wher... ...winning and bringing me to Washington, DC , with him to handle his environmenta... ...that was headed for Washington, DC . I remember, it was like you have ... ...is about an hour outside of Washington, DC , in The Plains, Virginia. Thanks s... ...not the first person in Washington, DC , to be misquoted by the press, and I'... ...is about an hour outside of Washington, DC , and during the pandemic this is wher... ...winning and bringing me to Washington, DC , with him to handle his environmenta... ...that was headed for Washington, DC . I remember, it was like you have ... ...is about an hour outside of Washington, DC , in The Plains, Virginia. Thanks s... ...not the first person in Washington, DC , to be misquoted by the press, and I'... Show more... Kathleen Sebelius ...signed the Peace Draft. And I was in DC in college going on peace marches, an... ...really kind of interested in being in DC . My dad was in Congress; I though... ...Boston schools. But I wanted to go to DC , so I applied to and got in t... ...so there were still vestiges of that in DC . It was getting to be, at that point... ...roof at my college in Northeast DC and watching large parts of Washingto... ...young White girl to be in the middle of DC . I had some very interesting—I had ... ...presidency and law and order. Right. DC was full of that and had a lot of—no... ...yes. I used to go four times a year to DC to the board meetings, and he chaire... ...other, I would say, since those days in DC . That's really illuminating. Than... ...before it was really avant-garde in DC , because we had enormous natura... ...signed the Peace Draft. And I was in DC in college going on peace marches, an... ...really kind of interested in being in DC . My dad was in Congress; I though... ...Boston schools. But I wanted to go to DC , so I applied to and got in t... ...so there were still vestiges of that in DC . It was getting to be, at that point... ...roof at my college in Northeast DC and watching large parts of Washingto... ...young White girl to be in the middle of DC . I had some very interesting—I had ... ...presidency and law and order. Right. DC was full of that and had a lot of—no... ...yes. I used to go four times a year to DC to the board meetings, and he chaire... ...other, I would say, since those days in DC . That's really illuminating. Than... ...before it was really avant-garde in DC , because we had enormous natura... Show more... Lisa Jackson ...The first time I met him, I went to DC to testify as head of the New Jerse... ...has their own lobbyist in Washington, DC . So I remember our New Jersey stat... ...normally, if you're in DC long enough, you realize that there'... ...he said, “Are you going to Washington, DC ?” And I said, “No, no, no, no... ...Governor, I'm not going to Washington, DC . They want me to help with th... ...he said, “You're going to Washington, DC ?” And I said, “No, no, no, no, no.” ... ...like the back of my hand. I worked in DC . I worked in—” “All right. Fine.” Som... ...he said, “You're going to Washington, DC .” And I said, “Well governor, we hav... ...of staff. But it's another level in DC .” He said, “The people are smart... ...I started at EPA in '87, I worked in DC , but by '89 I was working in New Yor... ...EPA in New York City and in Washington, DC , before that. I had pretty stron... ...echo chamber that's the Washington, DC , world about what's really happening.... ...is not the pig lobby. Inside the DC beltway bubble, there are these bi... ...that is the way you want to go out in DC , is that you want to be known fo... ...things I didn't love about it, and DC is DC, but it was the privilege of ... ...I didn't love about it, and DC is DC , but it was the privilege of ... ...The first time I met him, I went to DC to testify as head of the New Jerse... ...has their own lobbyist in Washington, DC . So I remember our New Jersey stat... ...normally, if you're in DC long enough, you realize that there'... ...he said, “Are you going to Washington, DC ?” And I said, “No, no, no, no... ...Governor, I'm not going to Washington, DC . They want me to help with th... ...he said, “You're going to Washington, DC ?” And I said, “No, no, no, no, no.” ... ...like the back of my hand. I worked in DC . I worked in—” “All right. Fine.” Som... ...he said, “You're going to Washington, DC .” And I said, “Well governor, we hav... ...of staff. But it's another level in DC .” He said, “The people are smart... ...I started at EPA in '87, I worked in DC , but by '89 I was working in New Yor... ...EPA in New York City and in Washington, DC , before that. I had pretty stron... ...echo chamber that's the Washington, DC , world about what's really happening.... ...is not the pig lobby. Inside the DC beltway bubble, there are these bi... ...that is the way you want to go out in DC , is that you want to be known fo... ...things I didn't love about it, and DC is DC, but it was the privilege of ... ...I didn't love about it, and DC is DC , but it was the privilege of ... Show more... Max Baucus ...and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC . He then returned to Montana to joi... ...students, all expenses paid, to DC , work in congressional offices. Chuc... ...I would invite Chinese ambassadors to DC . I'd invite them to my home state o... ...they would get some instructions from DC . “Okay, let's keep pushing o... ...in Silicon Valley. Went back to DC and just really said, “This is reall... ...then DCM, Dan Kritenbrink, came over to DC and worked out a five-point protocol... ...you interacted with in Washington, in DC ? That's probably Kerry, to a bit... ...with President Xi. I wanted to be at DC when President Xi got off the plane... ...and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC . He then returned to Montana to joi... ...students, all expenses paid, to DC , work in congressional offices. Chuc... ...I would invite Chinese ambassadors to DC . I'd invite them to my home state o... ...they would get some instructions from DC . “Okay, let's keep pushing o... ...in Silicon Valley. Went back to DC and just really said, “This is reall... ...then DCM, Dan Kritenbrink, came over to DC and worked out a five-point protocol... ...you interacted with in Washington, in DC ? That's probably Kerry, to a bit... ...with President Xi. I wanted to be at DC when President Xi got off the plane... Show more... Nancy Sutley ...at that point was sort of ahead of DC , where there were discussions. Eve... ...took a leave to spend some time in DC going back and forth. When I had worke... ...find food.” The folks who'd come from DC on Air Force One—they literally cam... ...top of it, there was a snowstorm in DC , and the Air Force was worried abou... ...ability to get Air Force One back into DC . So, as they kept pushing out ou... ...plane and took off. And we landed in DC however many hours later in the middl... ...required engaging people outside of DC to talk about those impacts. So tha... ...on a plane for fifteen hours to come to DC and try to get people's attention. In ... ...their lives, and you can't do that from DC . Were there ways that thos... ...California, which, we're very far from DC and to a lot of people DC can be a rea... ...very far from DC and to a lot of people DC can be a real abstraction, and vic... ...To go traveling meant you weren't in DC , so you always had to balance, is m... ...is my time better spent staying in DC to discuss an issue, or going to hea... ...of really smart people in a room in DC who can come up with some great idea... ...at that point was sort of ahead of DC , where there were discussions. Eve... ...took a leave to spend some time in DC going back and forth. When I had worke... ...find food.” The folks who'd come from DC on Air Force One—they literally cam... ...top of it, there was a snowstorm in DC , and the Air Force was worried abou... ...ability to get Air Force One back into DC . So, as they kept pushing out ou... ...plane and took off. And we landed in DC however many hours later in the middl... ...required engaging people outside of DC to talk about those impacts. So tha... ...on a plane for fifteen hours to come to DC and try to get people's attention. In ... ...their lives, and you can't do that from DC . Were there ways that thos... ...California, which, we're very far from DC and to a lot of people DC can be a rea... ...very far from DC and to a lot of people DC can be a real abstraction, and vic... ...To go traveling meant you weren't in DC , so you always had to balance, is m... ...is my time better spent staying in DC to discuss an issue, or going to hea... ...of really smart people in a room in DC who can come up with some great idea... Show more... Peter Orszag ...students go to live in Washington, DC , and work in government, in som... Richard Trumka ...we have Puerto Rico and Washington, DC . And then there's the national. Let m... ...do stuff. Because there was gridlock in DC , the only way we were going to mak... Sarah Holway ...and previous director of education for DC Greens, an organization dedicated t... ...teaching experience prior to founding DC Greens, Holway served as an art teache... ...South Carolina, to Washington, DC , where I'm from. The period before th... ...[Street] and U [Street] in Washington, DC , which is—I don't know how to explai... ...powerful physical location for DC 's African American community. It wa... ...about that shift to moving back to DC and being a teacher in that period, an... ...of some of the work that we did at DC Greens. But that's a separate topic... ...organization in Washington called the DC Farm to School Network. They wer... ...[Shweder Biel], who's my cofounder at DC Greens—she and I had bee... ...on gardens there. Was this through the DC Environmental Education Consortiu... ...at OSSE, together we cochaired the DC Schoolyard Greening Committee, whic... ...it seemed to make sense to me that DC Greens could play a role in providin... ...waiting list for it. Was this through DC Greens? This was through DC Greens... ...through DC Greens? This was through DC Greens, yes. So, maybe we shoul... ...accessible. We really understood how DC 's local politics worked a little bi... ...your cofounder, Lauren, to establish DC Greens? We built a garden at Stodder... ...fleshed out what support program for DC school garden coordinators could loo... ...all of the people that were working in DC , because most people had been workin... ...I had any funding coming in through DC Greens. We didn't pay ourselves for th... ...how to really make this a thing in DC and have a line in every school'... ...resources, as you observed them across DC schools, which shaped what was possibl... ...as you expanded out the work of DC Greens for citywide policy solutions... ...what always drove me in my work within DC Greens, was a desire for every studen... ...that. Reflecting on your time at DC Greens, what were you most proud an... ...gardens and all of the organizations in DC that had been doing it; I'm proud tha... ...galvanized that movement in DC and really solidified it. It now ha... ...this work. What I'm so excited about DC Greens' next iteration is, it's ... ...from all over the world that work at DC Greens, and everybody feels reall... ...an accurate description to think about DC Greens in that way? I think it is. ... Show more... Steven Chu ...percent of the people in Washington [ DC ], because most people in DC don'... ...Washington [DC], because most people in DC don't actually run larg... ...to both parties. But I learned in DC very quickly that it is not only th... ...it is not only the lingua franca of DC ; it appeared to be the only language... ...said, “You know, Steve”—she hated DC , because the only people in DC wh... ...hated DC, because the only people in DC who wanted to talk to her, wanted t... ...we first played golf on this course in DC , and we had a caddy.” There's ... ...was this crazy stuff going around in DC that the Obama administration pushin... ...percent of the people in Washington [ DC ], because most people in DC don'... ...Washington [DC], because most people in DC don't actually run larg... ...to both parties. But I learned in DC very quickly that it is not only th... ...it is not only the lingua franca of DC ; it appeared to be the only language... ...said, “You know, Steve”—she hated DC , because the only people in DC wh... ...hated DC, because the only people in DC who wanted to talk to her, wanted t... ...we first played golf on this course in DC , and we had a caddy.” There's ... ...was this crazy stuff going around in DC that the Obama administration pushin... Show more... Sylvia Burwell ...away from our daughter. I would be in DC if that's what they needed. We would d... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Public Health Coming soon Nuclear Nonproliferation Coming soon Chicago Coming soon