About leadership and character and the lessons he learned from studying commanders through history. Its the subject of his book sailing to north. [applause] thank you latest denman. Please be seated. It is my distinct honor tonight to introduce a very special guest and a good friend. This is the second of our jack bergman distinguished leadership series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months ago. Jackma brennan was Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps, return with president nixon from sacrament, retired from the marines ratherre than leave his side so we thought we would name it for jack, this series and we had a distinguished profession of arms here for my people the jackman continues to serve. Many of youod so are here. If youre a veteran or a of activeduty would you stand and allow us to thank you . [applause] our guest graduated from the United States Naval Academy 1976 a 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way inclu
Next, from the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute, six former law clerks recall working with Supreme Court Justice Sandra day oconnor. This is part of an allday conference commemorating the 38th anniversary of Justice Oconnors senate confirmation. [ applause ] thank you. Its really an honor and a privilege to be here. So, i was asked just to say a few words to introduce the next panel. And i think i would start by saying something that probably we all know, which is the court is a fairly powerful institution. Now, of course, it wasnt always so, though. One of the signs of how powerful it is is that you really do see in any president ial election people saying it matters who you vote for. You should vote for x rather than y because theyre going to pick the next Supreme Court justices. But if you think about why that really is so, the Court Decides about 80 cases a year. And about 75 of them need to be decided, but theyre not the reason the court is such a powerful inst
Really is so, the Court Decides about 80 cases a year. But and about 75 of them need to be decided but theyre not the reason the court is such a powerful institution and not the reason people say that about who you should vote for in the president ial election. In any given term theres typically five or six cases really the reason we care about the court. And those are the cases that have truly Significant Impact on our politics, on our society, on our government. There are also, though, typically cases, the reason theyre so hard and part of the reason that makes them so important is the law runs out before you get to the decision. So how do we justify giving so much power to what amounts to a kind of monarchal institution in cases like that . And its not actually so easy to do if you think about it. But one of the ways we do it is by who we appoint. Who we give that kind of power to. So we look ideally for people who have experience in politics, who have been in a position where theyv
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