And yet this young girl, pretty and shy, was driven, was bright, was inquisitive. And she became the first person in her family ever to go to college in 1956. My mom, Eleanor, graduated from Rice University with a degree in math and became a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950s and 1960s. Imagine a teenage boy, not much younger than many of you here today, growing up in Cuba, jet black hair, skinny as a rail, involved in student council. (02:06–02:21)
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Asserts that Ted Cruz's mother was a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950s and 1960s.
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