On the campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren often tells the story of how
Warren doubled down on her claim that she was fired from a teaching job for being pregnant Monday.
The Massachusetts senator said Monday in an exclusive interview with CBS News that she stands by her previous statements that she was pushed
“All I know is I was 22 years old, I was 6 months pregnant, and
By the end of the first year I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days: wished me luck, showed me the door, and hired someone else for the job,” she said at a town hall in Oakland in June.
The “showed me the door” anecdote came up often on the campaign trail until recently. And now some outlets have found a 2007 interview Warren gave in which she presents the story in a different light.
In an interview that year at the University of California, Berkeley, Warren gave the first known public account of her time at Riverdale.
“I worked in a public school system with
Documents also show that Warren resigned from her job. The Riverdale Board of Education in New Jersey extended Warren’s teaching contract for a second year in April 1971, according to meeting minutes the Washington Free Beacon obtained. The board accepted Warren’s resignation “with regret” in June 1971, records indicate.
“After becoming a public figure I opened up more about different pieces in my life and this was one of them. I wrote about it in my book when I became a U.S. Senator,” Warren said in a statement from her campaign to CBS.
The 2020 presidential candidate also has faced backlash for her claim to Native American heritage. A genetic test showed that Warren had between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American ancestry.