Angeles times, the New York Times and the miami harold. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition that in a democracy such as ours if freedom of the press is jeopardized then democracy itself is jeopardized since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016 donald trump routinely criticized the press humiliating a number of reporters, bullying others, challenging the very concept of freedom of the press as written into the First Amendment of the u. S. Constitution. If he won it would inevitably change. That is the way it has always been. He won and it has not changed. It has gotten much worse even on occasion frightening. I use that word deliberately. The word of a president is much more consequential than the word of a candidate. I know other president s have had their quarrels with the media but donald trump crossed a bright line when he accused reporters of being the enemies of the American People forgetting it was a favor
President trumps recent comments criticizing the media, and their roles as comes to s when it media. Cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] just hello and welcome. Were programmed tonight, were guardians of the fourth our guard arians are our guests the executive editor of the New York Times and baron the executive editor of the Washington Post. Arguably the two most editors of the two influential newspapers in the country. Dean has been in this job since 2014, having earlier served as managing editor and Washington Bureau chief of the times. He also edited the Los Angeles Times and won by a Pulitzer Prize reporting for the Chicago Tribune and started his newspaper career way back when as a Young Journalist at the Times Picayune in new orleans. Martin baron, marty to most of his friends joined the Washington Post in 2013 after 11 years editing the boston globe.
As ak deem area. This 40 minute event was part of a policy conference in washington, d. C. This took place in april. Okay, everyone will take your seats, please. Id like to introduce our next section, which focuses on infrastructure policy. You know, when you look back to the causes of the great economic boom since between the 1980s and the financial crisis, there are a lot of parents, you know, every success has a lot of parents, but you know, you cannot understate the amount of infrastructure that was built in the 80s and the amount ty added and the contribution of that infrastructure to the boom. During that period of time. You know the benefits of getting ahead of our infrastructure needs. The challenge today is that so much of our infrastructure lies i ha had the opportunity to serve with dr. Gettys on a transportation commission. A 12person commission. We spent three years struggling t the experts have forfoten more than identify known, so im pleased to have them here. First of a
Roberts and d. C. Circuit court judge Merrick Garland talk about the legacy of the lake Second Circuit appeal Appeals Court jue Henry Friendly. This is just under two hours. Good evening everyone. Im robert katzmann, chief judge of u. S. Court of appeals for the Second Circuit. I welcome each of you on behalf of my court, and where especially honored to have with us are chief justice, John G Roberts junior. [applause] today nearly 500 strong, we celebrate an american judicial giant, henry j. Friendly compuserve for 27 years on the Second Circuit court of appeals, including three years as chief judge. It is a wonderful coincidence, today is the 58th anniversary of judge friendlys appointment by president Dwight D Eisenhower to this court. Our gathering today is at the intersection of two initiatives which have engaged us for two years. The first is the one and 25th Anniversary Commemoration of the Second Circuit court of appeals chaired by circuit judge richard wesley, comprising a seri
I am a fellow, prod to have you all here, and also i am one of your two cohosts from representing the school of Public Policy and Public Administration, where we prepare lots and lots of wonderful students for federal service as well as service in a variety of part of the public and nonprofit sector. Im delighted to be here for several reasons. Good to see a lot of my old friends. With 12 of our faculty are not the fellows. At least a couple of us are here at this sort of midsummer, a lot of people at the beach and its great you all are you. Its an important topic, and we are delighted to be here to invite you to host, and also its wonderful always to see gene dodaro. Just a couple months ago i was up on this stage giving, being part of the arthur awards commission to give gene a Lifetime Achievement award. I dont know if you know that but he was an Arthur Flemming award winner very early in his career. Its an award that goes to federal leaders early in their career, and as i said it w