dr. malone. [laughter] mr.orney general, we are glad that you relented because we couldn't let you walk out the doors of this department without recognizing and thanking you for all that you have given to the department of justice and all that you have given to our country. [applause] the attorney general's commitment to our mission our singular mission to seek justice, has guided his entire tenure at department of justice. as attorney general he has had the courage and resolve not just to manage the department but to lead it. he has chosen what's right over what's popular what's just over what's easy and others over himself. he has said what needs to be said even when some didn't want to hear it, and he has stood his ground when needed. eric holder loves the department of justice. and on behalf of the career men and women of this department, i want to tell you we love you back. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you for devoting your life to the cause of justice that we all hold so dear. history can sometimes be h

dr. sharon malone a close friend of the family. it was a collard greens and cruelties and ham sandwich until days end upon end, it was not what people might think. >> it was, again, the masses and it was their movement and it was their circumstance that they were driving, and as the president pointed out, courageously to make better. >> camaraderie. he had a few religious. the president had a few religious touches from hymns to isaiah. >>> american instinct that led these young men and women to pick up the torch and cross this bridge, that's the same instinct that chose patriots to choose revolution over tierny the same that may drew immigrants across occasions and the rio grand and women to reach for the ballots, workers to organize against an injust status yeah. the same instinct that led us to plant a flag at iwo jima and on the surface of the moon. >> that was president barack obama a short while ago speaking at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge. you see the motor kade assembled there. the president and others are assembling