Students who brought the lawsuit. Welcome to the special presentation celebrating the 50th anniversary of a important milestone in u. S. History and for First Amendment rights. We are joining you live from the auditorium of the state Historical Society in iowa and we are in des moines. With us today are more than 200 students from schools across this state, we are joined online by students in classrooms across the country. Say hello everybody. applause in december 1965 mary beth and john tinker along with their friend Chris Eckhart wore black bands to school to protest the war in vietnam they were sent home and suspended from school. The students were told they couldnt return to school until they agreed to end their protest. Through their parents, the Students School sued the School District for violating their right to free expression. Culminated in the Supreme Court decision 15 years ago on february 24th, 1960, nine the court ruled seven to two that students do not shed their Constit
Manufacturers what their rights are. I can assure you, there is nobody there is nobody in the family doesnt know how to spend 20. We led the petition and i was the chairman of it, still am. Overtime, pretty soon, 20022014, hopefully this will be my last year. It was the largest antidumping petition ever brought against the country of china and i think still is. It absolutely split the industry in two. A lot of companies, we cant do anything with this but now they have a way that they can join us and we can ask a government to investigate i they going to join us . They already started importing a lot from overseas, or were they not going to join us . What are you going to tell your employees . The retailers became very upset. We were boycotted and we still are in some regards. Some had turned back but they refuse to buy products because we believe in the antidumping petition. As i told someone not long ago, people would look at you, dealers, with total disdain and i would come back to t
Before we fill the rest of the room. End to here at the qn day starts. I would like to welcome john bassett iii. [applause] and looking forward to hearing from you tonight sir it can i also particularly with like to welcome any spokesperson here from henry county has you share the spotlight as well. I can tell you about all the amazing words beth macy has won from her writings. But the real mark of her gift as a journalist asks eight simple question how many of you remember her story . By a show of hands how many remember young selena with all the patrons and cheering her on at harvard . [applause] or award wedding stories witting stories about the refugees living in our community but then children were going to buy stocks with 12 languages spoken . Or her series about teenage mothers. Or how families were navigating caregiving for their elderly loved ones or maybe one of her columns printed with precious think that instructed from 2005. [inaudible] [laughter] friends of bill i bet we
Cspan beth and john have agreed to say and sign books if you will wind up down bohol. But mr. Bassett is driving home tonight to halfhours so lets not keep him too late to. Could 95. Steve forbes and Elizabeth Ames trace their economic troubles to the ending of the Gold Standard in the 70s and discuss what a weak u. S. Dollar means for the Global Economy. They call for a return to the Gold Standard to stabilize the economy. Coming up next on booktv. We are very privileged to have with us this evening a very recognizable figure in the media and the business world. Steve forbes is of course editorinchief of forbes magazine, the nations leading business magazine and he has headed a Media Company that includes not only asian and european editions but a number of Web Properties focused on politics, sports and financial markets. Many of you will also remember steve Spirited Campaign for the republican president ial nomination in 1996 and 2000 during which he promoted the idea of among other
The first time i talked only to his son doug. So were your jeans and dress down in my hair was long at the time. I could tell he was thinking why did the at newspaper send this hippie to interview me . I knew he would get mad. And he would give me 10 minutes but i did my homework and i knew the story in to talk to somebody that was genuinely curious. They ran a cartoon it is a picture of a coffin. Somebody was kneeling in the last nail it said it is the last sale of the furniture called thin in virginia. I want to say wait a minute. [laughter] so to tell you some hard things as a writer hired you wrestle with having to Say Something hard that is the truth. I called my friends is it fair or is it true . And really you should be wrestling with these deep tissues. I dont want to hurt anybody is feelings and that is hard for me. But it would be hard for others so it is a constant is it fair is it true. But chapter for. That was the most difficult. Of. Knowing that it would hurt some people