Im delighted to welcome you to the first discussion this fall in our president ial distinguished event series. We launched this series to provide more ways for you to hear from renowned leaders. The individuals who bring illuminating dialogue, insight and inspiration to our gw community. This year in a virtual environment we have been able to extend the reach of this against even more. We hope to host these opportunities often over the coming months. For many in our community this will be the first of countless only at gw experiences to come. Our gw community is fortunate to her directly from the leaders, doers and thinkers who make many of the decisions that affect us each day. With our students, faculty, staff and alumni are not just passive blisters in these events. You are leaving the discussions and actively creating solutions. And youre leveraging this universities teaching to drive positive change in the world. Today on Constitution Day we are honored to host u. S. Supreme Court
Remotely, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. We are a division of medical historians and we followed the news pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. We reached out and began speaking with the Public Health service in january because we thinking about how to document this story. It has been a slow process for us. Steve at what point did you realize the pandemic would stretch into the summer and now the fall and potentially into the winter . Alexandra as historians, we thought about the difficulties inherent in making a vaccine, so we were pretty sure it would last for quite a while. For a fair amount of time. We would remain at home while a vaccine was being created. We still dont know what is happening, as you know, and so we are still taking things week by week in the museum. Steve so before mid march, what were your job duties and how has it changed over the past couple of months . Alexandra i oversee a division of historians of medicine and science
Responsibility baseline and mine alon theit the beach, recall, returned to normandy with cbs news man Walter Cronkite in 1964. I was responsible for the decision to go and all the fault fwlongs me and thats that. I was not the way he managed the war. Reporter renown architect frank gehry sa. I had to do it. I wanted to do it. I couldnt stop. Gehrys winning design based on guidance from a commission appointed by congress bears little resemblance to the memorial now built. At its center was a statue of ike as a boy in kansas. Looking out on a series of mettle skrims or tappest tris as gary calls them featuring key events in his life. I think we were perplexed by the design because the family was not pleased. The idea that a young boy would be looking at his future and wishing, what, to become commander of the most devastating war in Human History . I dont think he was dreaming to do that. Reporter how did you respond to that . Well, i had to agree with them. Because you know they wliftd.
At 7 00 p. M. Eastern on book v. George Washington University law school hosted a conversation with u. S. Supreme Court Justice steven breyer. They discussed the role of the constitution in todays world as well as criminal Justice Reform. Hello and welcome. We launched this series to provide more ways for you to hear from renowned leaders. The individuals who bring illuminating dialogue, insight and inspiration to our g. W. Community. This year, in our virtual environment, weve been able to extend the reach of these events even more. And we hope to host these opportunities often over the coming months. For many in our community, this will be the first of countless only at g. W. Experiences to come. Our g. W. Community is fortunate to hear directly from the leaders, doers and thinkers who make many of the decisions that affect us each day. But our students, faculty, staff and alumni arent just passive listeners in these events. Youre leading the discussions and actively creating solutio
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 Freedom Freedom. Freedom. Freedom Freedom Freedom we shall overcome those young people singing the anthem of the American Revolution of 63 were freedom riders. They were a part of the pattern developed in this revolution, a pattern fashioned by events more than events fashioned to a pattern. Along the way they not only involved the freedom ride but also the sitins, the direct Action Campaign. Borrowed the economic boycott, involved the use of federal troops, killed and has been killed. Were about to see them all, and as we see them we will see the growing participation of young whites in the battle. That participation enlarged the dimensions of the revolution physically and morally and they have taken part in increasing numbers, particularly in sitin demonstrations. It was a tactic employed by College Students in greensboro, North Carolina on february 1st, 1960 a group of freshmen from the agricultural and Technical College wrote a