How have you been. We call ourselves partners in crime. That we are not going to talk about the crime part of it, just to the partner part. What has been interesting since ive been in the position of library of congress is the fact that people ask me what does the National Archives do. What does the archivist do a and then theres a confusion around the history and the role of each of the institutions, and ive learned a lot about that even in coming up to reclaim the declaration of independence, the bill of rights. We call it the constitution. And that was held by the library of congress and the type of thing. It wasnt until the 1930s the United States got serious about its records. Iwas Franklin Roosevelt was passionate about records and that we actually created and he signed the legislation that created the archives. The charters had been in the custody of the state department independent of library of congress when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created f
right now from the supreme court this morning. retired associate justice of the supreme court sandra day o connor has died at the age of 93. she is a trailblazer in so many ways. she was the first female member of the supreme court. our ken dilanian is joining us right now with more. ken, what do we know? we are just getting right now a statement from the supreme court announcing her death. the first woman ever appointed to the court, appointed by ronald reagan. the statement said that she died of complications related to advanced dementia, probably alzheimer s, and a respiratory illness. again, she was 93 years old. justice o connor was appointed to the court by president reagan in 1981, and she retired in 2006 after serving more than 24 years on the court. she s survived by her three sons, six grand children, chief justice john roberts said the following about justice o connor in this statement from the court. a daughter of the american southwest, sandra day o connor blaz
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Are going to be this dug in . They dont want it. They dont want it. What does that mean for getting money to have the vaccine produced . They dont want it. They would rather have division. They would rather have their way. This is the ultimate act of entitlement that you can tell other people, other states, how they should conduct their elections. We dont like what you did. We dont like what the will of your citizens are, what they decided to do. So, we are going to change it. Thats what entitlement is, when people think that their way is the highway. Theyre used to be being the preimminent voice and they want to push that on to other people. Thats what entitlement is. Thats what this whole last gasp of these folks there. They dont believe in free and fair elections. Thats a lie. They dont believe in decency, as they have been saying. Thats a lie. Theyre not the moral party. Theyre not about states rights either. Theyre not about states lies. Its all a lie. Its not about do unto others
policy, the apprehension of noriega and democracy in panama, expelling saddam hussein, the fall of the soviet union, fall of eastern and central europe, the fall of the berlin wall, the elimination of apartheid. america s standing tall after those four years. and also as part of this weekend, there are all kinds of panels talking about foreign policy, domestic policy during those years in the late 80s and early 90s. i had a chance to moderate one of the panels today with three historians who were all working on different books about president bush s legacy. they touched on the positives, the negative, the heart-warming, the difficult, all the things that happened during those years, and they got a little saucy, too, i ve got to tell you. don meacham, one of the authors, a pulitzer prize-winning author who is now working on a very lengthy book about president george h.w. bush, shared an early accounting of some of the girlfriends that he had before he met the love of his life, barba