Cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivist of the United States and is a pleasure to welcome you to the National Archives in theater this evening. A special welcome to our friends at cspan and the other Media Outlets who are with us tonight. We have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the National Archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himself clerked for a future Supreme Court justice, judge alito when he was at the u. S. Court of appeals on the third circuit. Welcome. On monday the constitution of the United States turned 225. Tonights program is one of several that the National Archives is presenting this month in celebration of the founding document, signed in philadelphia on september 17, 1787. Tonight we are honored to welcome two distinguished guests to explore the past, present and future of United States constitution. Our
We dont always find newspaper editors and area embracing reporting. Its not just economics. Is the discomfort that investigative reporting often causes in the newsroom. Because its troublesome. Its that more than the economics. If youre going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful that gives those people running into complaint to the publisher and destroys their legion over those and we are fortunate to go through the 70s and really almost all of our careers to work for people who are really Strong Enough right in that area, and let the chips fall where they may. Akhil reed amar presents his thoughts on the interpretation of the u. S. Constitution and what the author means by up to his passages. Mr. Amar posits the constitution can be understood by the original text alone or historical precedent. Akhil reed amar discusses his book with Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas of the national air cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivi
James meredith at the university of ol miss. I like to pick out subjects that i feel have a lot on like to pick out these subjects that i feel have a lot of resonance to our cultural history, biography. Paul hendricksons most recent work, hemingways bonet is the name of the book. Thank you for joining us on booktv. Thank you for having me. Sander and Stuart Taylor talk about affirmative action, oral arguments in fisher versus university of texas. They agreed with the initial goals of affirmative action. That now believe it hurts the minorities. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you very much. Thank you for roger and cato for sponsoring this event, it is great to have such a great kickoff to the book which is being officially published today. I am going to start and talk a little bit about the central idea itself and some of what we found in the book. I will try to relate this more to what is happening tomorrow. I am particularly glad to be doing this at cato because it stood for
Those in with all of these other sources. Host david, thank you very much. I urge everyone to read the book and, later, you can look at the context in those transcripts of these tape recording as they come out over the next year. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. On affirmative action in the prelim to the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument in fisher be the university of texas. The authors report the agree with the National Goals of affirmative action but now agree the system hurts more than helps minorities. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you to roger and cato for hosting this event. Im thankful to have such a good kick off to the book, which is actually being officially published today. As roger mentioned i am going to start and talk a little bit about the mismatch idea itself and some of what we have done in the book. Stewart is going to try to relate this Martin Fisher and what will be happening tomorrow. I a
because the industry is up and rubbing and it just needs to make sure everything is regulated welfare play going forward. host: we re out of time. john, do these issues we ve talked about in priority sei and private sei do they move the political needle are people paying attention? guest: i think the universe make their selection based on the technology issues is diminishing small. however, they are very important issues for the economy and for the country the fact you haven t seen this being a top level topic for either the obama administration or the romney campaign team is just indicative of the fact it s not really campaign issue. but i think you will see that it s a very important government issue and i expect both sides to be prepared to devote significant energy and effort to should they be the administration. guest: i ll take a different approach. i think the american people understand that investment and innovation is hugely important to the well being to the