So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titles are no good. All right. So at any rate, i sent out so we wanted to find out what officials thought of us ordinary americans. She said, well, thats kind of interesting, but she said, Everybody Knows that ordinary americans are a bunch of idiots. Why do you need to do a survey to find that out . Well, to me, that confirmed everythi
Are you writing these days . A colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. Government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titles are no good. All right. So at any rate, i sent out so we wanted to find out what officials thought of us ordinary americans. She said, well, thats kind of interesting, but she said, Everybody Knows that ordinary americans are a bunch of idiots. Why do you need to do a survey to f
With . Prof. Ginsberg absolutely. This is a true story and those who live in washington have probably heard versions of the story. I was at a dinner party and sitting next to me was a pretty senior hhs executive, someone whom i have known for a long time, very nice person. And she said to me, well, what are you writing these days . So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titl
Movement. This is where we tell the story about how ordinary americans used their First Amendment change to advocate for and really change society. Around theg to walk corner and look at artifacts from two of the earliest organizations that rose up in the 1950s and 60s. Gay americans lived in fear and secrecy for much of the 20th century. Gay people could be arrested for itwing affection in public was a difficult time to be a gay american. Is when you see the rise of groups when people are meeting in secret to talk about what its like to be a gay man, to talk about what its like to be a lesbian woman, to socialize and have fun. Groups rose justice. For social you see some artifacts, a matchbook which would be passed on the people in public places. They gave them to people who were likeminded, of secret way to say, are you guy, i am, too, lets talk about it. This was a book that was published for gay people arrested by police advising them on what their rights were when being arrested b
Monday, we continue our visit to the hilt to learn about samsungs Problem Solver tomorrow, which challenges kids to use steam to improve communities. Our project is for cool shootings and school intruders. We created a door lock on the outside of the door, and it can be put in place to help put it in your mind that there will be one bracket on the door itself and one on the doorframe. Whenever the door is closed and there is a shooter in the building, that lock will slide in. Announcer monday at 8 00 p. M. On cspan2. Each week, american artefacts takes viewers into archives, museums, and Historic Sites around the country. Next, we visit the rise of exhibit and the museum there in washington dc to learn about the 1969 riots and [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, welcome to the museum. Stonewall was an event in the summer of 1969. And uprising at a gay bar in new york city, that propelled forward the modern lgbt rights movement. This is where we tell that story o