ms. katherine. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisors supervisor cowen i am just overwhelmed with this i do think because i enjoy doing it but when i told supervisor cowen owe said every time owe go somewhere it is dim, dim, dim i think this is time 82 year-old and still able to see this development that i should have some type of recognize in terms of where i am and who i am i was joking about it but i see that she took it to heart and i really, really appreciate it. >> because the thing is that i'm the type of person i do things because i enjoy doing it not because i have to do it only thing when i felt i had to do something when i was in the military you know you either did what they told you to do or suffered the consequences so after that i decided that i wanted to come back to bayview hunters point community and do some things that i could do to make a difference and that's what i set out to do because when i came there i felt that there was nothing to - the african-american women and broadcast help so i took it on my own as an individual to start some programs that the women in

ms. katherine. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisors supervisor cowen i am just overwhelmed with thisbecause i enjoy doing it but when i told supervisor cowen owe said every time owe go somewhere it is dim, dim, dim i think this is time 82 year-old and still able to see this development that i should have some type of recognize in terms of where i am and who i am i was joking about it but i see that she took it to heart and i really, really appreciate it. >> because the thing is that i'm the type of person i do things because i enjoy doing it not because i have to do it only thing when i felt i had to do something when i was in the military you know you either did what they told you to do or suffered the consequences so after that i decided that i wanted to come back to bayview hunters point community and do some things that i could do to make a difference and that's what i set out to do because when i came there i felt that there was nothing to - the african-american women and broadcast help so i took it on my own as an individual to start some programs that the women in the bayview

ms. katherine. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisors supervisor cowen i am just overwhelmed with thisbecause i enjoy doing it but when i told supervisor cowen owe said every time owe go somewhere it is dim, dim, dim i think this is time 82 year-old and still able to see this development that i should have some type of recognize in terms of where i am and who i am i was joking about it but i see that she took it to heart and i really, really appreciate it. >> because the thing is that i'm the type of person i do things because i enjoy doing it not because i have to do it only thing when i felt i had to do something when i was in the military you know you either did what they told you to do or suffered the consequences so after that i decided that i wanted to come back to bayview hunters point community and do some things that i could do to make a difference and that's what i set out to do because when i came there i felt that there was nothing to - the african-american women and broadcast help so i took it on my own as an individual to start some programs that the women in the bayview

ms. katherine. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisors supervisor cowen i am just overwhelmed with thisbecause i enjoy doing it but when i told supervisor cowen owe said every time owe go somewhere it is dim, dim, dim i think this is time 82 year-old and still able to see this development that i should have some type of recognize in terms of where i am and who i am i was joking about it but i see that she took it to heart and i really, really appreciate it. >> because the thing is that i'm the type of person i do things because i enjoy doing it not because i have to do it only thing when i felt i had to do something when i was in the military you know you either did what they told you to do or suffered the consequences so after that i decided that i wanted to come back to bayview hunters point community and do some things that i could do to make a difference and that's what i set out to do because when i came there i felt that there was nothing to - the african-american women and broadcast help so i took it on my own as an individual to start some programs that the women in the bayview

. >> my name is a katherine i'm a member of ms i've lived thirty years ago lived in the area there about0 blocks from where their proposing this moving it is important for people in the area to be able to have access to a local place they can continue they are medical care and ms is there quite a while so thankful moving the building a couple of blocks it is important that people have access to it a two, that in terms of the parking and the how people get there a lot of people live in the neighborhood they will walk or take public transportation could be an issue not so much it's been out there to me, i'm encourage you to approve this this is open for the first year from monday through friday from 8:30 to 5 not impact people that will not impact people on the wednesday in terms of parking or too many people being around and ms provides medical care for people of all income levels and it is important that people that live there locally families the children, the elderly, the seniors big deal being able to access medical care without goes across town i ask you to approve that. >> thank you

ms. crowley: mr. president why don't you get in on this quickly, please? pres. obama: katherine, i just want to point out that when governor romney's campaign was asked about the lilly ledbetter bill, whether he supported it? he said, "i'll get back to you." and that's not the kind of advocacy that women need in any economy. now, there are some other issues that have a bearing on how women succeed in the workplace. for example, their healthcare. a major difference in this campaign is that governor romney feels comfortable having politicians in washington decide the health care choices that women are making. i think that's a mistake. in my health care bill, i said insurance companies need to provide contraceptive coverage to everybody who is insured. because this is not just a -- a health issue, it's an economic issue for women. it makes a difference. this is money out of that family's pocket. governor romney not only opposed it, he suggested that in fact employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage.

ms. land six years ago led me to ask the question, how did this all begin? how did she and katherine johnson and the many other women that i remember from my childhood end up working at nasa of all places? many people know the story of the space program which was gaining momentum at a time, the same time that a young preacher from atlanta named martin luther king jr. was taking center stage in what was then becoming known as the civil rights movement. but fewer people know that well before the start of the space program hampton was america's first center for aeronautical research and development. fewer people know that before dr. king, a civil rights leader named a. philip randolph led a campaign to ban discrimination in the civil service and the defense industries against african-americans, something that also benefited mexicans, jews, catholics, many other people who had been left out of the new jobs that were coming about as the result of world war ii. in may 1943, almost two years after franklin roosevelt's executive order desegregating the civil service, five black women started