Cohosted the event. It is one hour and 45 minutes. Panel withernoons the legacy of John Marshall today, perfectly embodies the mission of the foundation. It is to educate the public about the rule of law and the constitution through the character and services of americas great chief justice. , with professional development, continuing program such as today and through a variety of awareness through this time. Marshall is a chief justice with the National Constitution center curated by our own kevin walsh. Website for out our more information about that exhibit and other events. Look far inve to our legal system today to see if the influence of marshall. I am as eager as you to hear from our scholars on this topic. I am honored to turn over the panel for their introduction to the honorable richard leon a Senior District judge of the states District Court. Judge leon was appointed to the District Court in 2002. While in private practice he irancontra and whitewater investigation. In addi
His academic career teaching at Mount Holyoke college where he was dean of the faculty at one point and dow prof. And taught at williams and west point and university of massachusetts and and his. On the side when he hadnt been teaching he had been riding bestselling books. Among them biographies of john adams, george washington, thomas jefferson, the National Book award, the book on the revolutionary brothers, founding brothers, revolutionary generation won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Most recently he has written a book, at the quartet, that has been on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks. It is what he calls the second American Revolution, the revolution that began in 1787, not 1776. Lets go into that. Thank you for coming, joseph ellis. Why did you decide to focus your academic career on the revolutionary war period . What was it about this area that was interesting to you . I do seem obsessed, dont i . They asked Willie Sutton back in the 50s, why do you rob banks . Wi
Montgomery but they have to leave montgomery in 1957 and she will spend the second half of her life as an activist in detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow no. She will continue to do that, rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, she will be active against the war in vietnam, she will be active against South African apartheid, showing a picture with my favorites in the book about an older rosa parks protesting outside the South African embassy, she will continue until the end of her by saying the struggle is not over, there is much injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting but yet the way rosa parks is taught is a problem we salt in the past but the actual rosa parks says theres much more work to be done. Susan siegel host how did you do the research on this book . Guest i had to do a lot of digging. I did all sorts of oral history interviews, in part because part of rosa parkss favors were caught up in a dispute over her stage, got the papers
Its the hard hats, its he its the welder putting together the new locomotive. It is the engineer designing the system, its the accountant, its the secretary. Handling the paperwork. Its america building its future and the president s lay the president s laid out a good plan. He said put your ideas on the table is there a better way to do it . Put your ideas on the table, my colleagues. Lets get about done it. This is our future. And its fully paid for. Doesnt increase the deficit. In fact, it will grow the economy and provide us with those middle class jobs. I know, mr. Tonko, you have been at this for your entire career. As have i. To be here in congress at this moment when we had an opportunity, we missed it today. We missed the opportunity today to grow the American Economy and instead we kicked the can down the road. Better than nothing, but not good enough. Nothing to be proud of. Mr. Tonko, a few seconds i dont know how much time we have. Mr. Tonko i believe we probably have five
Commissioner johns move to approve. Move to continue. Sorry. On that motion to continue. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner hillis. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner sugaya. Commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places you under your consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 2 case at 19 through 28 clyde street request for condominium conversion and next at 39 alamed billboard and case four at 499 laguna street request for kwufrgs third reading any Public Comment on the consent calendar seeing none. Commissioner antonini move to approve items 2, 3, 4. Second. On t