If you want to skip straight to the President, he comes in at about 28:40.

Addressing an audience at the White House, Obama called the ADA “an extraordinary event in the life of this nation” and thanked a long list of public figures who played a role in getting in passed — including former President George H.W. Bush, who signed it law in 1990, Bush Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan.

The president said the Department of Justice was publishing two new rules Monday “prohibiting disability-based discrimination by more than 80,000 state and local government entities, and 7 million private businesses.”

He said beginning in 2012 “all new buildings must be constructed in a way that’s compliant with the new 2010 standards for the design of doors and windows and elevators and bathrooms.”

Obama noted the rules were first proposed six years ago by former President George W. Bush and have been updated to cover recreational and municipal facilities.

He also told his audience he was about to sign an executive order that will promote recruitment, training and retention of Americans with disabilities by the federal government and said his administration has committed more funding for care and treatment of wounded military personnel.

Obama said the Affordable Health Care Act he signed into law this year has “broken down one discriminatory barrier that the ADA left in place” by eliminating the practice of denying healthcare coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions.