Whats night, Jack Smith looks to Pierce Donald trumps immunity shield. Ill take you the president should be agnostic to who is going to occupy the office next. Right. So it arguably, and i think a very strong argument shouldnt matter, that the president or that the candidate is out advocating for a certain position. Right thats not an official role. The president i think thats what Jack Smith is really trying to get to here, is that this is Candidate Trump. These are candidate actions. Its the president of the senate. Its not the Vice President pence. And thats important because the president of the senate is actually an article one title. So thats thats congress. Its not the Executive Branch. In article two. So you see these differentiations in there. Another key differentiator that i think gets around on those supreme Court Court cases, the Fisher Case. And if you see in this indictment in the Fisher Case was about an obstruction of official proceeding, you see mention of, you know,
The university of notre dame about how al smith and john kennedy dealt with the issue in their president ial campaigns. John mcgreevy from the university of notre dame, your book which came out a few years ago, whats the premise behind it . What did you learn . I wanted to look at how american ideas of freedom intersected with the catholic global tradition and what i learned is there were moments of conflict and moments of overlap. In the 19th century there was conflict over slavery. But lots of overlap in efforts to reform the economy. There was overlap in the 50s on ideas about americanization and mention over issues around sexuality, divorce, a lot of the kind of cultural issues of the last 30 years. More than 90 years ago, al smith ran for president. First catholic on the ticket. Why was that significant and who was al smith . Al smith was an immigrant kid from new york city. Irish and german. Never got beyond the eighth grade. By the 1920s, catholics are a significant percentage o
[chanting] any nation that ignores half of its people is in a moral and economic crisis. We will do more there will be a movement. To bring people together save the heart and soul of this democracy and this world. [crowd chanting] almost 87 years ago, my father, reverend dr. Martin luther king, jr. , reminded america of the fierce urgency of now. But now is not the time to engage in the luxury of cooling off. It takes the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. But now is the time to make real the promises of this democracy. He was working with poor people of every race, from every corner of this nation, to build a Poor Peoples Campaign when he was assassinated in memphis, tennessee, five years later. Today, as his daughter, i am honored to add my voice to the Poor Peoples Campaign, a National Call for moral revival, and stand with the 140 million poor people and low wealth people urging america to address with the fierce urgency of now the big issues of poverty and race. Please join us in t
Historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of several others in your textbooks in a survey of u. S. History and been published in ten additions and sold more than 500,000 copies. Norton is a price finalist and. She is married professor of American History at cornell university. Her new book, 1774, year of revolution, available for purchase following the program. So now, please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause]. Mary is really nice to be here. I want to make sure that the microphone is on. It does not seem to be. Hope there is pretty great. I want to show you the cover of the book because that little bottle on it, is famous here in colonial historian. I dont know if anybody recognizes this but it is in the collection of the massachusetts historical tidy. It claims on the label which is impossible read, that it contains t picked up from bostons harbor. The day after the tea party. So there is a quite wellknown object in the colonial america.
Objection. Ms. Collins madam president , as the snoor senior as the senior republican woman in the senate today, i am pleased to begin a series of speeches, along with my good friend from california, the senior democratic woman senator, senator Dianne Feinstein to commemorate a significant milestone in our nations history, 100 years ago today the Senate Finally passed the 19th amendment which affirmed the right of women to vote in elections. Madam president , all of us recall that in 1775, as the Second Continental Congress was forging a new nation conceived in liberty, be a gale add Abigail Adams admonished her husband john to, quote, remember the ladies, end quote. Despite Abigail Adams advice, it took a century and a half for women to adhief their right achieve their rightful place as full u. S. Citizens. On june 4, 1919, the United States Senate Passed the 19th amendment to our constitution. The courage and determination exhibited by generations of women and men were rewarded in ju