this sunday is the final of the 2011 wittman's soccer world cup. -- women's world cup. japan has been ranked number 4. training and preparation were disrupted by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan earlier this year. in the quarter finals, they knocked out germany. in the semifinals, they put on a stunning performance to defeat sweden. now they have their eyes set on the title. they are up against a fierce competitor. the u.s. is equally keen to lift the trophy. >> the u.s. women have proven their talent again and again in the world cup. they have a striker who comes up big when needed, and an excellent goalkeeper. they have earned the right to challenge for a third world cup title. >> it is always an honor and a privilege. you never get there with one player. you never get there with one save. it has been a collective effort by everybody involved. >> the americans proved their fighting spirit in their semifinal against france. then their fearless goalkeeper made a crucial save that allowed them to advance. the outspoken 29-year-old almost saw her career end

children, house old and poor people, improve health outcomes for all, and, yes, give equal rights to wittmanthe betty ford support for the equal rights amendment did not become full-blown as first lady. she had been pushing this for years and made sure her husband got the message. president ford told me years later that he had a lot of pressure politically on the outside but inside my own family. mrs. ford was a very ardent supporter of equal rights for women and he used to get a lecture is quite frequently. he got pushed to act on the floor of the house in favor of it and he did. he voted for it and he thought was a good approach but it was a very controversial provision. there is your midwestern understatement. as susan said in an interview, been firstly did not change her mother. it gave her a podium to stand on to express the views she had formed in her years as a congressional wife. betty ford also always know when to step off the podium and how to avoid the worst of labels for any woman of the era, especially the political wife. she was never strident. she could use her candid good hum

wittman described november, thursday november 1st, 1956 as another day of a great crisis. sherman adams called this, quote, the worst week that eisenhower experienced in all of the years of the white house. that morning, the president was besieged with rumors that the soviets are planning to deploy aircraft on the syrian basis. mike asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff whether the russians might have slipped some atom bombs to the egyptians eisenhower were canceled all campaigned even six of the one scheduled for philadelphia that night, november 1st. and whitman recalled that the typewriters have to go to the train to complete the speech in time. in philadelphia in convention hall, ike looked out at 18,000 partisans who came expecting a rousing campaign speech. instead, he launched into what columnist called a high level speech by a man who spoke not as a republican partisan, but as president of all the country. eisenhower stated that the nation had pursued a pass of honor by staging against the use of the force in and egypt. the united states, he said, cannot

right before wittman launched his invasion, president franklin pierce told him don't do it because the acted just been passed and it was an uproar he feared the added uproar would bring to read this a taken together bad dream the number one, to come and recreated this nightmare that there could be a build of slave states large enough to defend itself and sustain itself as an independent nation to the commission, so in effect he wasn't crazy for hovering close. there are countless people who've contributed to the state boundaries and aside from all the white man i've been talking about a lot to just quickly mentioned that there were people from all walks of life. there were native americans such as the chief who sought to create a native american state called sequoia which would occupy the eastern side of oklahoma. there was sequoia pencil to the negotiations that established the boundary between oklahoma and arkansas fittingly enough that is event line border. the chief standing there impact on what is the northern border of nebraska. there were african-americans. edward who sought to

what happened is governor christie wittman had to fire her state superintendent of the police because of that. so that is just kind of a quick go through of the argument that racism is something that is inherent in institutions. let me put this another way as i and my comments. most of us in this room understand that in order for this country to have slavery and 100 years of racial apartheid, that is from 1865 to 1965, we had to have institutions to carry this out. well, if those institutions haven't changed, they are still racist. and what we want to argue here is that the data support that. at the same time as mr. obama was being elected, that was -- there was a study by a group of civil rights groups who had put together a big commission headed by two former secretaries of god, henry cisneros a democrat and i am drawing a blank on the republican from the state who used to play for all with the buffalos. yeah, jack kempe. the two of them were the heads of these two commissions and they studied the existence of housing discrimination and i will just quickly say because some of you ma