Similarly, i was a professional woman in the 70s and part of the movement to try to get the president to try to appoint more women to the federal courts at all much less the Supreme Court. So when Sandra Day Oconnor was appointed to the Supreme Court it meant the world to me. I was so hoping it would happen just like she said. She said it is okay to be the first. But i do not want to be the last. And i was watching her because i was so many first. And i didnt want to have her fail. I wanted to be the next one. Two; they were really my offensive lines. Host when will we see a woman chief justice . Guest there was talk of making oconnor chief justice. She would have been great. She was so fair and widely respected. John robert is a young man so i want to say in probably 40 years. Host next call is jay in toledo, ohio. We are listening and you are on with Linda Hirshman. We are talki about the Supreme Court. Caller thank you. Linda, you have such a wonderful sense of humor. It is so great
May be a real victory for short people. Marys book, in the kirby lobby, thank you for sharing. Thanks very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next, Melvin Urofsky from the bill of rights book festival, talks about the role of dissent and the Supreme Court. He has an extraordinary array of publications in addition to his definitive biography of brandeis, a life. He has written books on american zionism and his latest book which we are here to discuss is so wonderful and so timely, so provocative that i couldnt put it down. Is dissent and the Supreme Court, its role in the courts history and its role in constitutional dialogue and i cant wait to discuss it with you, please join me in welcoming Melvin Urofsky. [applause] you dont need to, this great book, we had a blast, we couldnt resist starting to talk about it. I have to begin with the obvious question. It was a logical step to go from there because brandeis is one of the great dissenters and according to his opinion in the wh
Ways the pivotal event for the creation of the modern middle east, the middle east that is the source of so much tension and controversy and bloodshed. The obvious reason we want to go back is to find out how the west bank, gaza, jerusalem, principally but also the Golan Heights came into possession of israel. That happened in june 1967. The war was a pivotal event for many profound reasons. For example, the sixday war really spelt a death nell for the movement of arab nationalism which was a Secular Movement in its most sublime form under Gamal Abdul Nasser of egypt. That war was debunked in 1967. It opened the door to the entry of a new ideology into the middle east. That was an islamic ideology. That has had profound ramifications for everybody, both in the middle east and in the United States as well. The sixday war also ended the period when the arabisraeli conflict was a state to state conflict, a conflict between israel and jordan, israel and syria and israel and egypt. This bec
Next some booktv encore booknotes. Michael oren. On booknotes in august 2002 to talk about his book six days of war june 1967 and the making of the modern middle east. The book chronicles the events in the sixday arabisraeli war which resulted in redraw borders changes in leadership and a new balance of power. This is a little us than an hour. Cspan michael b. Oren, author of six days of war june 1967 and the making of the modern middle east, why do we want to go back and look at that sixday war in 67 . Guest well, the sixday war was in many ways the pivotal, seminal event for the creation of the modern middle east, the middle east that we are witnessing today, the middle east that is the source of so much tension and controversy and bloodshed. The obvious reason we want to go back is to find out how the west bank, gaza and jerusalem principally, but also the Golan Heights, came into the possession of the state of israel. And that happened in june, 1967 but the war was also a pivotal e
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