and abigail rose to the occasion. for the first ten years of their married life john and abigail lived in this home from 1764 to 177 . it's where they raised their four children. this was the birthplace also of their second child john quincy adam who went on to become the sixth president of the united states. it's also an important home because the primary link between she and john adams who was serving at philadelphia in the second continental congress would be letter writing and it was from this house that he was provide add window to what was happening back here in the colony of massachusetts during the revolutionary war. abigail would report to john about the militia in boston during the battle of bunker hill on june 17, 1775 she took her young son john quincy right over down the road the high point and she would watch the battle of bunker hill with her son and report to john adams of the fires and the smoke rising from charles town. she was literally the ice of the revolution to john adams and essentially the sec

if you didn't like you he would let abigail know about it. so therefore we historians know about it. on this book is not and anti-david mccullough book but i must, and i love the hbo series on john adams but i really did feel that it was looking at john adams through the eyes of john adams. >> is favor point of view. >> that's right. and in particular since adams and dickinson were always -- adams was i speeding on dickinson and dickinson was always too frail to beat up on adams. some of this book is to give the quieter personalities, gives some there too. >> patrick henry considered america's connection with great britain to solve than the colonies living in a state of nature. the question i have fun reading your great description of patrick henry nowadays would he have been tea partier occupy wall street? >> i'm so glad you asked me this. i do like to imagine which politicians today, these folks and 74 to 76 would be most like. i just have to go back to john adams. arnie frank. [laughter] barney frank. intelligent, passionate, abrasive. joh

more abigail fishers. college officials are going to have to scramble to show that they are considering other factors about students. socio-economic backgrounds, family backgrounds, that kind of stuff, before they look at race. so for those of us who are with kids, applying to college, affirmative action is still in place, but no question this battle will continue and get back here to the supreme court in the next few years. and abigail fisher, she graduated from lsu this year. >> all right, terry. thank you. of course more big decisions from the court to come. >>> and tonight, the world is offering prayers for nelson mandela, the south african freedom fighter has taken a turn for the worse. the 94-year-old in critical condition tonight surrounded by family, as he battles a lung infection. and abc's ron claiborne is there. >> reporter: we're getting very few details about the condition of nelson mandela except that it's not changed. south african president jacob zuma said today, he's getting the best medic

the petitioner in the court, abigail fisher, is a white woman who accused the university of texas for rejecting her based on her race. the supreme court ordered the lower court to decide under a harsher standard. the supreme court also struck potential blows to workers who allege sexual harassment and discrimination with a pair of decisions on monday. in the first case, the court narrowly defined a worker's supervisor as someone who can change their employment status, limiting legal protection. in a separate ruling, the court backed a tighter standard for workers to prove they had been the victims of retaliation after complaining about discrimination. both rulings were decided by a 5-4 vote. ruth bader ginsburg called on congress to overturn them with new laws. the proposal by republican senators bob corker and john havens would nearly double the number of border agents, expand the use of drones, and construct hundreds of miles of border fencing. in total, the plan would cost $40 billion over the next decade. the report spurred a dozen republicans to throw support behind a reform bill

let's bring abigail doolittle, strategist. still with us, jim lecamp.you have been waiting patiently for a big market correction. the market's gone against you right now. this is your correction. what are you thinking? what do your numbers show? how long does this correction continue, for example? >> i think the real thing to think about here is volatility. you've had building volatility over the last month and it's been building into the sell-off and i think we're moving toward a 10% to 20% correction. last time i was on i was saying 20% -- >> 10% to 20%. >> am i right? we're down 5%. >> so you're saying we could go down another 15%. that is tough stuff. >> i feel very strongly about it actually in terms of looking at the charts and the technicals that i do, not only with the s&p 500, but cross-asset charting and also with the vix, i think we'll see the s&p drop down to a minimum of 1532 and we may find buyers, but there's an excellent chance that we could see 1449 and that would be fitting. >> what leads us down another 14%. it's not going to be the b

abigail, i absolutely concur. this is a volatile stock.s is a stock that moves, as jon fortt mentioned, there is clearly litigation risk out there. so far, this has really been a teflon stock as far as deterring and deflecting competition. >> while you were both talking, the stock turned positive, up four cents. >> whew. >> thank you, both. abigail, as always. steve, i admire you're comfortable in your own skin. happy father's day. see you later. >>> mae rhea, 30 minutes left. we don't have art on now to tell us if we have a buy side or sell side, but right now, down 84, 85 points on the dow jones industrials average. >> up next, with the supersized budget and major franchise potential, the man of steel's box office numbers this weekend are incredibly important to time warner, and the plans to do it justice league franchise. look at the movie and the buzz around it, coming up next. >>> also, everybody's been talking about news corp. chairman's rupert murdoch's impending divorce, and there's another one that's pending that will cost him thr

abigail fisher, who's white, applied to the university of texas in 2008, and she didn't get in.tive action policies, and she sued. today the supreme court hand down a cautious ruling, sending abigail's case back down to the lower court, where texas will have to show it uses race as a last resort, not a prime factor in the admissions process. so what do you think? should colleges and universities seek diversity on campus by considering a student's race? or should the affirmative action experiment come to an end? you can join the conversation on the "nightline" facebook page or tweet us @nightline or ytd

abigail adams is a campaign strategist for her husband. she helped advise him in order to win an election who he had to keep in his coalition. they were talking desperately about the politics and legislation that needed to be passed in which senators and congress men could count on and what he needed to do to win more support. >> i was curious what also you think the role of ceo isn't talking about capitalism and defending capitalism is. you talk about the role of government sometimes and how it works against business. do ceos have a role in talking about and defending capitalism and explaining it to people? are resistant to you. we do by example? >> guest: i think we do. one of the most disturbing statistics for me is for the longest period of time, you have to understand the history of the united states. we started out really poor. we were backwater the united states. really as we embrace capitalism in the united states, where tens of millions of immigrants come to create a better life. they have the freedom to enterprise, the freedom to

the case in question is fisher versus the university of texas. 22-year-old abigail fisher says she was unfairly discriminated against because she is white. at the moment colleges can take into account a candidate's color when deciding who to admit. this because it increases racial diversity on campus. at here is our correspondent ben white. >> for decades college campuses have been the frontline of america's struggle with race. >> now i finally tonight you admission to the university of mississippi. meredithrs ago james was denied a position at the university of mississippi because he was black. in the years sense, the u.s. has tried to level opportunities were black and minority students through affirmative action. and that is why campuses like this one better reflect the racial mix of america. it has always been contentious. is its role now redundant? >> i think in the united states which is increasingly diverse, we cannot have a legal regime that sorts people according to skin color and national origin. >> critics hope that abigail fisher's argument persuades the court to pass a swe

abigail fisher said she considered that a victory. >> they gave us everything that we asked for and i'm very confident that u.t. won't be able to use race in the future. >> reporter: but bill powers, the president of the university of texas, also was claiming victory saying he thought the affirmative action program will withstand the tougher scrutiny. >> today's ruling will have no impact on admissions decisions that we have already made or any immediate impact on the immediate impact on the holistic admissions process at the university of texas. >> reporter: the ruling prompted a strong separate opinion by justice clarence thomas. he said arguments used to support affirmative action were similar to now denounced arguments of slaveholders and segregationists over what was good for black people. but with today's ruling, affirmative action survives. the question is for how long? the justices already agreed to hear an even bigger case this coming fall on affirmative action and admissions and in hiring and, scott, that chase may not be so easy for the justices to punt. >> pelley: jan crawfo

abigail felt she was. why is it that diversity brings better leaders?proof of that. >> john: you know, the u.s. military disagrees with you. they have been the most outspoken supporters of any institution in all of america of affirmsive action saying that it improves their pool of officer candidates. i'm not making it up. >> i understand that, but what clarence thomas is saying is right. i shouldn't have been able to get into a school just because of diversity. it should be skill set. the president of the united states is black. we're done with this. affirmative action is wrong. >> there are two ironries here. this is a court that believes or committed itself to judicial restraint. what they did was kick it down to the district court and they'll be allowing those courts to basically be involved in the administration process. the second ironry is-- >> john: wait, wait. >> the second ironry is clarence thomas is essentially an affirmative action justice. and if we can't call a spade a spade. >> john: well, she's allowed. dee dee do you believe that karen

abigail fisher, who's white, applied to the university of texas in 2008, and she didn't get in. she blamed the school's affirmative action policies, and she sued. today the supreme court hand down a cautious ruling, sending abigail's case back down to the lower court, where texas will have to show it uses race as a last resort, not a prime factor in the admissions process. so what do you think? should colleges and universities seek diversity on campus by considering a student's race? or should the affirmative action experiment come to an end? you can join the conversation on the "nightline" facebook page or tweet us @nightline or yt ytd @terrymoran. tune in to "good morning america" tomorrow. as always we're online at abcnews.com. good night, america. >>. >> clouds fog drizzle hang over the bay area. live picture from the emeryville camera as showers move through second day and it looks like we are headed for a third. good evening. carolyn has the night off. let's get to spencer live doppler 7 hd. so strange this time of year. >> you are right. pretty much sum up the current wea

abigail adams was basically a campaign strategist for her husband. she helped advise him on who to in order to win election, who he had to keep in his coalition. they would talk incessantly about the politics, the legislation that needed to be which senators and congressmen he could count on and which he could not, what he needed to do to win more support. >> john roberts, author of the book "rating the first ladies takes a look at first ladies as political partners with their husbands. "question time," prime minister david cameron discusses the british decision to support the syrian rebels. he also answered questions on the g8 summit, the national health service, and strengthening the uk laws on intellectual property and appear at -- and copyright issues. >> questions for the prime minister. alex cunningham. >> thank you. this morning, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in thision to my duties house, i should have further duties today. >> alex cunningham. patients were made to wait in ambulances. how does the prime minister think

abigail adams was basically a campaign strategist for her husband. she helped advise him on who to woo to win election. they would talk excessively about politics and legislation that needed to be passed emma which senators and which congressmen he could count on, what he needed to do to win more support. >> if we continue our discussion on first ladies, john roberts takes a look at our nation's first ladies as political partners with their husbands rather than wives and mothers. >> during question time, prime minister david cameron discusses providing nonlethal to syria. he also talked about the g-8 summit, the national health service, and strengthening laws on copyright issues. >> questions for the prime minister. alex cunningham. >> thank you. this morning, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in this house, i should have further duties today. >> alex cunningham. >> 256 patients were made to wait in ambulances. how does the prime minister think the best way to deal with this is to find hospitals 90 millio

all right, abigail, i'll give you the last word, where would you go? tell me more, for example, can rates rise and stocks rise at the same time? for example, your pessimism, how long does it last? >> my pessimism lasts until we see some sort of corrective action, 20%. i think again we're in a multi-year topping process. i think now there is a chance that instead of moving down 20% and potentially back up, i think we may actually be moving straight down. i would actually be looking towards king dollar, not immediately, but below the 200-day moving average, i think the precious metals look interesting here. i agree what you are talking about from deflation standpoint. if you look at gold andcismer on the quarterly close, it held pretty nicely from a technical aspect. >> i got to get out here. this is beyond me. i want to ask you one kwe question, what if people take a position and don't think the feds will do what they will do. it won't happen until september. that's my guess, that's what jerome stein said, could markets rolly? july and august or at leas

abigail and annes. good to see you both. abigail, let me kick it off with you. through oracle's chart. how does it look? >> it carries a very clear message. steer clear. and if oracle happens to drop by another buck, it turns into an outright sell. let me show you why. when we take a look at the five-year weekly chart, there is an uncanny similarity between 2011 and 2013. we see steep uptrend that have reversed on topping patterns. in 2011, oracle's head and shoulders pattern took it down toward or below 25. not once, not twice, but three times. the current pattern confirms at that 29.36 target sub-25, i'm pretty confident we'll see that sort of a sell-off. but what's really worrisome here is the potential double-top borne of the 2011 and 2013 peaks, needs to confirm off of that neckline, but if below 24.43, we're looking at a sub-15 oracle. again, steer clear, even sell. >> wow. all right. let's look at the fundamentals. how does the company look to you? >> yeah, i'd give three reasons why i also wouldn't be a buyer. the first is, as jon fortt mentioned, this i

this case starts with a young woman by the name of abigail fisher here. was tenied admission by the university of texas. abigail fisher turned around and sued, claiming nonwhites were admitted with lower grades than hers. today the high court refused to decide that case directly but said a lower court was wrong in ruling against abigail fisher. so this case now goes back to that lower court with a note from the supreme saying this go round, texas has to prove that using a racial standard is the only way of ensuring diversity. got it? we're going to talk about that a little later. >>> glamorous sex parties. erotic dancers. and sex with this woman. a 17-year-old moroccan born prostitute known as ruby the heart stealer. behind closed doors this was the life for former prime minister sill vio berlusconi. his sordid past is catching up with him. he's just been sentenced to seven years in prison, found guilty of sex with a minor, banned from ever entering politics again. live with me from milan senior international correspondent, ben wedeman. before we walk thr

abigail adams was basically a campaign strategist for her husband. she helped advise him on who to woo to win the election, who he had to keep in his coalition. they would talk incessantly about the politics of the day, the legislation that needed to be passed, which senators and congressmen he could count on, what he needed to do to win more support. >> as we continue our conversation on first 80s, john ladies, john first roberts takes a look at our first ladies as political partners with their husbands rather than as wife's and mother -- wives and mothers. monday night on c-span. and ceo randall stephenson spoke wednesday at a brookings institution discussion on the future of mobile technology and talked about the nsa data collection program. he was joined by arkansas senator mark pryor, chairman of the senate commerce subcommittee on communications, technology, and the internet. this is one hour. for those of you who are following on twitter, we have set up a hashtag. you can pose questions or comments through twitter if you would like to. the num

the case involves abigail fisher, who sued the university of texas as austin claiming she was unfairly rejected for admission compared to less qualified minority students who got in. the ruling chastised the lower court for not applying strict scrutiny in the case, meaning that lower court failed to make the university demonstrate that there were tno other ways to achieve diversity than by race. fisher seems undaunted. >> i'm very honored. we have more work to do but i'm looking forward to the next steps in the process. of course we're happy with it. they gave us everything that we asked for. i'm very confident that u.t. wouldn't be able to use race in the future. >> abigail fisher did not file her lawsuit out of the blue. she was hand picked by edward bloom, whose group bankrolled her. supreme court rulings on that case and same-sex marriage are also expected this week. so no sweeping verdict on affirmative action today, but there is a new caveat to the college admissions process. schools will have to show the policy is absolutely necessary to achieve diversity on campus. and joining

he said he would not have to pay a single cent in legal cost, and abigail fisher now lent her name tohe case. >> there were people in my class with lower grades that were not in all of the activities i was that were being accepted and the only other difference in between us was the color of our skin. i was taught any kind of discrimination was wrong. >> he had bigger sights, taking down the voting rights act something he failed to do in 2009 and one day while cruising the department of justice's website, he saw there was a rejection of a voting map in a small town. he acted quickly and called the attorney for that town, and the two men clicked. ellis said he had been chaffing under section 5 and was intrigued by his call. ellis agrees to bring suit on behalf of shelby county voting the voting rights act was outdated. fisher versus the university of texas is before the supreme court right now. we are awaiting those rulings, because he went out to find the perfect people to make this case. he is funded by god knows who may be responsible for genuine dismantling of law to make this count

>> abigail adams. see one, two. >> sipple ludington. abigail adams, martha washington margaret corbin marcie otis warren. betsy ross. martha washington, six. we are not going to get up to 10 are we? >> mrs. loring. [laughter] >> that is another issue. she would have a very interesting memoir, however the point is that there were at many women at least two or witnesses or involved in the american revolution. but we don't know that much about them and the accounts if we have from those who are left in mrs. loring is a perfect example among others are very scant. there are only a few. we we know for instance that there were women spies and we get a few sentences here and there and women during the lexington and concord when the british were marching, we know american patriot women through -- down on them to the to keep them. we only have scraps aside from the women you mention and this is always been a real frustration to me, throw frustration. i said there have to be more accounts and there has to be correspondence and that is how i began

abigail fisher is the plaintiff in the case. she was denied admission and said it was because of race. she's holding a news conference this afternoon. her legal team is seeing this as a win because they believe the court has laid the ground work for striking down race based admission. >> the justices, the nine justices as you well know and you were over at the supreme court all morning are set to make three more mayor case decisions. explain what's going on. >> reporter: that's right. yet to be decided among the top tier cases, as we call them, is an issue relating to the voting rights act of 1965. the question is whether section 5 is constitutional in way that congress reauthorized it in 2 6 2006. then there's the two gay marriage cases. one relates to proposition 8 in california. that was the state initiative determining that marriage is between a man and a woman. the other is about the defense of marriage act or doma as it's called and whether individuals in same sex marriage cases ought to get the same federal benefits as st

. >>> the supreme court kicked the case abigail fisher brought against the university of texas back to a lower court. fish he shall schooled the school claiming she was not admitted partly because she is white. >> i hope the court rules student's race and ethnicity should not be applied. >> factors in race, test scores and student activities to help select freshman class. lawyers for the school argued the policy is necessary to improve diversity. >> most americans would like a day when we don't need to take race and ethnicity newly account. -- into account. we are not to that dpa. >> the justices ruled 7-1 that the lower courts did not use the right standard to decide if the policy is constitutional. they want that court to take another look. >> justice thomas said he would have gone further saying race should not be a factor for university admissions. justice ruth was the only justice to vote against the ruling. >> reporter: and we're still waiting for some big rulings from the court on same-sex marriage and voting rights. the court will hand down more decisions tomorrow morning. live

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abigail adams was a campaign strategist for her husband. she helped advise him on who to woo in order to win the election, who he had to keep in his coalition. they would talk incessantly about the politics of the day, legislation that needed to be passed, which senators and congressmen he could count on and which ones he could not and what he needed to do to win more support. takes a look at our nation's boss first ladies as political partners with their husbands. tonight at 9:00 eastern on c- span. that think it is critical any regulation or lack thereof keeps in mind we need to be incentivized to continue to invest in the physical infrastructure that is the core of every product we deliver. if we are going to be a world -eader in the delivery of high speed data, have the highest speeds, most capable 55 access points, it is key that the regulatory environment we work in foster's as opposed inhibits further investments in that plan. >> should we have more flexibility for consumers? that is something that we are hopeful for. we have already

have a gail adams was a campaign strategist for her husband -- abigail adams was a campaign strategist for her husband. they would talk incessantly about all addicts of the day,, legislation that needed to be passed, -- when he needed to do to win more support. this hidden history, to me, is one of the most fascinating and overlooked areas of presidential history. one of the parts that i'm drawn to very much are the aspects of political crisis and how people get through a bad crisis. when you think about political crises come i think impeachment is about at the top of the list. i don't know if any of you read if any of you followed the recent impeachment trial in the senate, but i was not familiar with the earlier impeachments, like the johnson impeachment in the 19th century. some of karl johnson, it turns out, was an adviser to her husband much in the way that hillary clinton was to bill clinton in the more recent impeachment. i was in washington during that impeachment to do tv shows. when i read what happened in the johnson presidency, i was struck by the similarities between hilla

as we heard from tom goldstein of the skotus blog, the court giving this ruling believed abigail fisher her case had the standing to be before them but they've sent it back? >> the universities have options. other things they could do but they won't create the diverse student body they want to create. there is no alternative to some kind of race test in affirmative angion. if you want to get beyond race as someone once said you have to get to race. if you want a diverse student body around the country you have to have some kind of race-based formula. doesn't mean race is the only thing you put in the formula to decide who's getting into college and who's not, but race has to be a part of that formula. >> so when we look at the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll support for affirmative action programs, they're at a low, just 45% believe affirmative action programs are still needed to counteract the effects of discrimination against minorities and with an equal 45% feeling the programs have gone too far and should be ended because they unfairly discriminate against white people. i

abigail adams was basically a ampaign strategist for her husband.he had to keep in his coalition. they had to talk incessantly of the day litics and the legislation that needed to be passed. which senators and congressmen you could count on, which ones you couldn't. needed to do to win more support ochlt. the we continue authorization on "first ladies. he women who informed the presidency takes a look at their al partners with husbands rather than wives and mothers. tonight on c-span. >> this morning, a reporter's swanson at with ian the helm and rebecca politico.nd of hen the advisor for counterterrorism discusses rams.llance 57bd later, daniel wise talks group's review of ederal disaster relief spending. ♪ host: good morning, it is monday, june 17, 2013. congress is in session this week. on to continue debate immigration overhaul measures, the house is ready to take up a five-year farm funding measure on tuesday. --nwhile, president of president obama is in ireland for the group of 8 summit. we want to hear from you this morning about the american

abigail, let's talk fundamentals. what's your view on walmart?, maria, i'm talking technicals today. >> how does the chart look? >> the charts are consolidating sideways. there's not a clear buy or sell signal, that's called practicing reactive policy analysis. but if we combine it with predictive technical analysis, looking at trends and patterns to say whether a trend will stay in place, i think it suggests that walmart is going to be a sell here and that this buyback is a cosmetic shift. let's take a look at why. a three-year daily chart shows a nice up friend. however on closer examination, it's a converging up friend. this is a telltale signed of a pattern to track and trade a bearish wedge, but it does show less enthusiastic buying momentum that gives way to a sideways pattern. in this case, it's a potential double top. however, returning to the reactive technical analysis, if walmart can climb above 78 or 80, i think it could actually be a $90 stock before declining. below $74.64, it's likely to drop down towards 67, the neckline of that d

and there was an affirmative action case involving abigail fisher versus the university of texas at austin, which asks whether it's constitutional to consider race in college admissions. the court sent the case back to a federal appeals court for review, but it did raise the bar for affirmative action admissions requirements. the justices imposed what some call a warning to colleges nationwide that they'll be held to a tougher legal standard to prove that there are no workable race-neutral alternatives to achieve diversity on campus. the ftc is said to be taking a close look at google's recent billion-dollar acquisition. the search engine giant bought navigation app-maker waze for $1.1 billion earlier this month. according to the wall street journal, the commission is re-crunching the numbers to find out if google purchased waze to put it out of business, paving the way for less competition for google maps. britain's vodafone could have a ticket into the critical european market with its acquisition of kabel deutschland. the u.k.-based mobile operator has agreed to a takeover deal of germa

he also said to abigail that heaven has dictated that these two countries will be foundered forever, implying a kind of divine, you know, inevitability. and certainly american politicians, from that time forward on july 4th in their speeches often speak about the inevitability of american independence. i knew most of us. i will confess. my activists would just as me for this. i believe that our history is a unique one and it is a history marked by unusual amounts of freedom, an unusual amounts of opportunity. but in the mid 18th century americans did not feel that way. they loved their king. they loved their identity as subjects of the british king. they had framed portraits of king george the third in their dining rooms. and so this remarkable development between 1763 when that conflict for the british first begins in 1776 by which ultimately thomas jefferson is calling george the third a devil and a tyrant, it is really an audacious move forward. >> use of vividly shows how these americans are divided. i love this detail. you talk about benjamin rush, the greater philadelphia physi

abigail, how about this chart? should john buy more or not?not for the faint of heart here. i think this is a buying opportunity for john and for other long-term investors. let me show you why. when we take a look at a long-term monthly chart, we see something that's going to shock a lot of investors and that's an up trend. over the long-term, buyers are in control. it's volatile, though, as shown by the ascending trend channel. shaping that uptrend are bullish falling wedges, the converging downward descending trend lines that start off with strong selling but eventually lead into exhausted selling. in 2002, 2003, that falling wedge turned into a bottling pattern which took the stock off single digit volume. now we're in a similar situation, we're in a bottoming pattern that supports blackberry going to at least 40. again, for long-term investors, i think who can stomach volatility, i think that blackberry is attractive here. >> all right. you agree? >> not really. i mean, let's start with the bad news. the bad news was they miss versus wall

abigail fisher who applied to the university of texas and was turned down finished her studies at lsu is out in the working world, has to prove what university of texas did was harmful to her. and university of texas says whether we considered race or didn't consider race, you weren't going to get admitted anyway, didn't matter. for the conservatives to rule taking this case as the case where somebody got done wrong may have been a bridge from the facts too far. they are looking for something more sympathetic of a plaintiff and where the educational system misstepped in a bigger way. texas decisions based on race were knew answer. they took each individual into account had is what the supreme court said ten years ago you got to do. they may be looking for a government enltty that uses race far more for a proxy than other stuff. tavis: on the other side, what case to the extent they have to deal with this and in this society multiculture, multieth nick america ever, it's going to have to be dealt with some place, what's the optimal case they were looking for 1234 >> in ways texas was o

going as far back as abigail adams and martha washington, you find first ladies later an active role in the white house and in the campaigns that it took to get there. aigail adams was basically campaign strategist for her husband. she helped advise him on who to woo in order to win election, who he had to keep his coalition. they would talk incessantly about the politics of the day and the legislation that needed to be passed which senators and congressmen he could count on which ones he couldn't and what he needed to do to win more support. >> as we continue our conversation on first ladies, john roberts takes a look at our nation's first ladies as political partners with their husbands rather than wives and mothers. monday night on c-span. >> the new energy secretary will address this years energy information administration conference on monday. watch our live coverage beginning at 8:45 on c-span2. now, defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chiefs of staff chair, general martin dempsey, testify on their 2014 budget as well as contractors come a sexual assault in the military, an

. >> hello, commissioners, my name is abigail maher and i am here to talk about the mou, and the donor recognition program and the grant acceptance. did you have questions for aaron? >> why don't you go ahead. >> great. so the mou that you have before you today for approval outlines the cooperative relationship between the department and the parks alliance, they are acting as a fiscal sponsors for the friends of mountain lake park playground. as you have just seen the proposed plan for the renovation is truly unique and like other community-driven projects like the most recent playground in lafayette park and mission dolores park. the estimated cost is $3.15 and $2 million secured from the 2012 clean neighborhoods and parks bond and in order to bridge the estimated $1.15 million shortfall, the recommendation to enter into memorandum of understanding. as you will see in the mou it generally establishes the following: that rec and park and our partners agree to work together to deliver a renovation project as presented to you today. i would just like to say as mary hobson has mentioned,

abigail fisher said she considered that a victory. >> they gave us everything that we asked for. confident that u.t. won't be able to use race in the future. >> reporter: but bill powers, the president of the university of texas, also was claiming victory, saying he thought the affirmative action program will withstand the scrutiny. >> today's ruling will have no impact on decisions that we've already made. or any immediate impact on the holistic process at the university of texas. >> reporter: the narrow ruling brought a tougher ruling by justice thomas. he said that affirmative action, similar to now denounced aguments of slaveholders and segregationists. if the ruling stands, the question is for how long. the justices have already agreed to hear an even bigger case on affirmative action admissions and on hiring. and that may not be so much easier to punt. jan crawford, cbs news, the supreme court. >>> well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the creator of the discovery channel, john hendricks will be in the studio. and we'll take you inside a longtime inst

this was challenged by abigail fisher, turned down five years ago. >> i am grateful to the justices, in moving closer to a day when race isn't used at all in college admissions. >> reporter: distinctions based on race are always legally suspect. because of that, wrote justice kennedy, schools must show that no workable race neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity. the lone dissenter, ruth bader ginsburg, said that texas already passed that test. civil rights advocates relieved that opponents didn't get their wish, an outright ban. >> what they wanted was a reversal, to strike down the plan. they didn't get that. >> there were a number of directions that the justices could have turned in today's ruling and the 7-1 ruling represents a positive outcome for the university, for the state and for the nation. >> reporter: but the decision will undoubtedly invite more lawsuits, forcing some schools to rely on economic background or experience overcoming diversity instead of race to get a diverse campus. author on affirmative action cases says diversity may be

. >> reporter: the case was brought by abigail fisher, who claimed she was denied admission to the university of texas at austin because she is white. >> i hope the court rules that race and ethnicity should not be considered when applying to the university of texas. >> reporter: but the university of texas, like most major american universities, does consider race and ethnicity in order to promote diversity in the student body. the university's vice president for diversity and community engagement says so many factors are considered, the decision of who to admit never turns on race alone. >> diversity, and must be more appointed, racial diversity is used as one factor among many. so much so that it's very difficult to pinpoint, oh, that student would have gotten in if they were white or if that student would are got in because they're black. what we know is that there are african-american students who are denied admission with higher credentials than white students. >> reporter: lawyers for the obama administration, in defense of affirmative action, pressed that claim to a skeptical supreme

texas case. >> abigail fisher challenged the university of texas to admit her. she said it was based on 14th amendment discriminatory action. they're admission policy which uses race at one factor was discriminatory and the court today decided that the first part of the admissions process, which is to take 10% of the high school classes around the state were fine. but the federal one that allows race to be one component was one in which the lower court had not scrutinized. so the court sent the case back down to the circuit for further review. >> how did it progress all the way up to the supreme court? >> well abigail fisher was one of those high school students who did not meet that 10% requirement. she then applied under incentive process which take other concern into account. whether or not a student is in a single parent household, if english language is the language spoken in the household and all of these different soc.^ owe economic factors. she was not admitted. she said it was the racial factor that prevented her admission and then she sued.. >> does th

as abigail indicated our budget is $3.15, of which $2 million has been award by the park bond. $350,000 has already been made in in-kind donations thanks to our architect and we have $750,000 left to raise to close the gap. we're going to look to our richmond district community and also neighbors from other districts who use mountain lake park and at all times during the year the park is very active and many districts not just ours will benefit from the improvement of this playground. we have come so far since our meetings three years ago in local coffee shops and we feel really excited and encouraged and we hope you approve our project so we can get to work. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is there any other public comment? >> good morning commissioners, meredith thomas with the san francisco parks alliance and i agree with dawn these folks have been on-point and doing all the right things to get their playground renovated and we're embarking on another set of bond projects that are going to involve a lot of community leveraging, and neighbors sweat equity and these folks are rea

in the texas case, the university of texas, where the young woman who you just saw on the screen, abigailisher, had been excluded, that they have to go back and have the program reassessed. important, gwen, he didn't backtrack from the 1978 bacchi decision or the 2003 gerutter decision. gwen: for now. >> but there was almost the same sort of warning shots that pete was referring to in 2009 on voting rights here in this case. and what it essentially said was that the lower court had used the proper standard but used it too generously toward the university. >> what the court is basically saying is it's ok to have diversity. but universities have to almost prove that they tried everything accept a race conscious program to get that diversity. and the court shouldn't take their word for it. they should give them -- gwen: there were a lot of things they had in that lump but as long as race was part of it, they could consider regional, geographical diversity and consider all sorts of things but race always is a thing that makes people go, no, that's a bridge too far. >> and one of the things ab

it means more lawsuits, probably, more abigail fishers.scramble to show they're considering other factors about students, socioecomonic, family background, that kind of thing before they look at race. for those of us with kids applying to college this year, affirmative action is still in place. but there is no question this debate, this legal battle will continue and make it back here to the supreme court in the next few years. as for abigail fisher, she graduated from lsu this year. terry moran, abc news, the supreme court. >>> it was four years ago today that michael jackson died. to mark the occasion, madame tussau tussauds' wax museum in london unveiled three figures depicting jackson in different stages. actors posed with the figures. the king of pop died after an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. dr. conrad murray serving a four year sentence. >>> one of apple's first computers will fetch top bid when it goes up for auction. this apple one personal computer was hand built back in 1976, a product of the garage-born busines

as you pointed out among abigail adams not so much. she was much more of a traditional, and political partner to her husband. [laughter] sadly, with a pointed to her influence in politics the extradition laws. it was not until a dolly madison to washington in 1801 that we begin to see a real political animal as first lady. she did have a taste for the job. she establishes so many things we connect with the first lady. the social sphere, the connection to the white house, the role of the charismatic figure. i must say, i sympathize with everybody who followed her. she just sat so much up into place. >> essentially remained first lady after her successors came in. she rolled over washington for decades. >> i was drawn to her because she was so famous. i did not understand that. i grew up in philadelphia. i watched those "charlie brown christmas specials." i made a dolly madison on the martha stewart show. martha stewart kept slapping my hand. i kept wanting to talk. >> she lived long enough to be photographed. i began to understand as fi

plaintiff abigail fisher will speak out any moment. rejected from ut austin because she is white. not because of her grades. that was her contention. and she maintains that that is a form of discrimination. the college says it is affirmative action then went to battle over whether that is legal. a question we still do not know the answer to today. shannon live outside of the supreme court with more. shannon? >> reporter: this is argued back in october. we have been waiting months to find out what the justices would say about the use of affirmative action in college admissions. what we found out, is they are kicking this back down to lower courts knowing this very case could end up right back here on the u.s. supreme court steps within a matter of time. essentially this is what the justices had to say about the case. the lower court did not apply the highest standard of reviews. strict scrutiny. meaning that any school using admissions policy using race must show there is a compelling government interest and if there is no other neutral

. >> in illinois kate and abigail sold girl scout cookies but the city sent them a letter saying stop. >> i was like what? it's girl scouts. >> these people ran afoul of laws they didn't know existed. >> this is not understandable. >> this is incomprehensible to me. >> the police don't understand. she says the stand violated the law. but. >> two officers bought lemonade from them and tipped them. >> dr. terazi is accused of this tree in the backyard. the wrong kind. >> they said if you don't remove the tree you'll be fined $2,000 a day or prison for six months you bought the house partly because of the tree. >> yes. >> it turns out it wasn't on the planning and development services department list after proved trees. there are a bunch in the area. >> you point this out to the authorities they say what? >> in california, stephanie and chuck were fined for holding bible study in their home it goes down this road of land studies and earthquake studies tens of thousands of dollars. >> the code enforcer said more than three. >> have you more than three kids. >> very five. >> because they c

>> abigail fischer was one of those high school students who did not meet that 10% requirement. she then applied under the second process, which takes a number of different issues or concerns into account. for example, whether or not a student lives in a single- , whetherusehold english is spoken in the household, and all of these different socioeconomic factors as well. she still wasn't admitted. one factor was race. factort it was the one that kept her from being admitted and then she sued. >> is this just kicking the can down the road? wherewe are, it is toward it will fall and remain there. justicepoint, what kennedy said in reading the decisions that he wrote, we are going back to a time when we review in court, when they decide whether or not raise can be taken into account and they have to look at whether there is another race neutral would have theat same educational benefit of diversity. say we would go to the poorest people and say that that is what we will use. so where is the remedy for the 300 years of racial discrimination suffered by people of color when we say we