Elizabeth Warren: What It Takes to Run for President - E-book - ePub

Before Elizabeth Warren was a Senator from Massachusetts and a presidential candidate with a plan for everything, she was a girl from Oklahoma who dreamed of becoming a teacher.  Young Betsy Herring was an energetic tomboy and such a whizz in school, her second grade teacher looked her in the eyes and said, "When you grow up, if you really want to, you can do something."  Doing something included winning a debate scholarship to Georgetown University in Washington, DC., going to law school and becoming a celebrated professor at Harvard Law School, fighting restrictive bankruptcy legislation, and working to reform Wall Street. She was encouraged to give up her beloved teaching position at Harvard to run for Senator in Massachusetts so she could help not just her students but every American.
Her "can do" spirit led her to run for President, and she became famous for the phrase "I have a plan for that .