not to mention condoleezza rice, madeline albright. i think there's something in the water.ut when you really start looking at the number of women who came through here, it's really quite wonderful. we also know that about one-third of our cowboys were african-americans, which was great. so we have had this in our history all along. and in the west, i think we've always been kind of proud of that, that it's been more frontier where you could come, and you were what you could do. we didn't really care about your pedigree. well, then, of course, we get to world war ii. and colorado until then had been kind of a nice, quiet little place and a whole lot of people discovered colorado. and post-world war ii, there was this huge influx of people coming in. and then the '60s hit, which we all remember as fairly turbulent. we had the king assassination, the kennedy assassination, civil rights, the war on poverty. we had all sorts of incredible musical -- changes with the rolling stones and everybody else coming out. the beatles. in fact, people are still playing that music. you know,

also this weekend on afterwards, madeline albright on growing up in nazi occupikaccupiedoccupied. >>> michelle obama gave commencement speeches at three college in may. one was at north carolina agricultural and technical state university in greensboro. her comments are 25 minutes. >>> good morning, everyone. y'all rest yourselves. first of all, let me thank chancellor martin for that very kind introduction. i also want to thank davonte and everyone from the board of governors, the board of trustees, the faculty and all of the staff here who have worked so hard on this event and making you the men and women that you are. i also have to thank the university choir. you all are amazing. as the chancellor said, you all are becoming regulars at the white house, and that's a good thing. singing at our black history month events for the last two years, it's just amazing to hear those voices pouring through the white house. very powerful and it is obviously such a pleasure to hear your beautiful music here today. and of course i want to join in on thanking all the folks who have made this day

also this weekend on afterwards, madeline albright on growing up in czechslovakia. this weekend on c-span 2. >>> attorney general eric holder was asked today about wiretap about my occasions related to the government's fast and furious operation aimed at arresting members of mexican drug cartels. he testified at the house judiciary committee. we're going to show you part of this hearing. you can watch it in its entirety at c-span.org and later tonight on c-span 2. we pick it up with committee chairman lamar smith questioning the attorney general. >> the foreign intelligence surveillance act amendments which help protect our country from terrorists expire at the end of this year. do you support the extension of those amendments? >> we do support them. it is the most important legislative concern of the intelligence community, and we hope that congress will pass that reauthorization before the expiration at the end of the year. >> okay. let me go to operation fast and fur furious. who is the highest level official in this administration who knew that these tactics wer

was not as prominent an issue, and you have had a bipartisan series of secretaries of state, madeline albright, colin powell, secretary rise, secretary clinton, who care deeply about these issues and there's no question in any mind -- i found the culture very, very different on these issues when i came back in '01 than when i left in 1992. and the fact that you have secretaries of state who are saying, yes, these issues are important to the building, you need to pay attention to them, then you start seeing what tamara was talking about, where -- i don't think in dick's time there were too many embassies that were going out talking to civil society groups. it was a very, very tough slog, and sore time the culture has changed. unfortunately it's not always the case that our national security interests are identical. ... >> at the caucus meeting following the day, i raised the issue of what we are going to do about syria. the response was zero. zero. nobody paid attention. this is all the europeans and the canadians, australians, nothing. no response. then i kept pushing it and, if i may say so,

i don't know if he remembers this, we were meeting a russian senior leader and madeline albright and the ambassador were all there and me and so they said, everybody here speaks russian. so he started talking in russian. and then the interpreter looks around and sees i am the only guy that doesn't speak russian and he comes over to interpret for me and i thought to myself, i'm glad jesse helms isn't watching this. so this is a sign of how much had changed, not only could he have real dialogue between people -- countries which had nonzero-sum interest, even though they were not in strategic partnership and where human rights could be discussed and that our diplomats had the kind of knowledge of the other country that previously they only had about us and we didn't have going the other way, i would note, also, it was during this period that guantanamo arose as an issue. at my last birthday, my family and i counted that i have worked on guantanamo for -- on my birthday for 17 of the last 22 birthdays which is a very scary thought. and i do believe that -- i disagree with tom in one resp