immigration or food prices or gasoline prices or crime. they want to talk about race. and to talk about abortion. let s talk about race and abortion. it is time for a true discussion. not the lies we get from media and tenured leftists and the rest. talk about the facts, i won t go to civil war, where democrat party was tied to hip with confederacy, and ddavis of a democrat,. no. i won t go to bl plessy versus ferguson but i will go to woodrow wilson, one of the great so-called leading progressive intellectuals in late 1800s and 1900s president of princeton university, governor of new jersey and elected president of united states, and he overturned every major pro-integration law that was put in place by the republicans who preceded him. recession gated the departments of federal government, fired black forward administrate hours, and openly sympathetic to the kkk . and he was critical of reconstruction. less th than 60 years ago, 1964 civil right act was opposed by 69% of se
i want to talk to you about a few things. s time for a true discussion. not the lies we get from media and tenured leftists and the rest. talk about the facts, i won t go to civil war, where democrat party was tied to hip with confederacy, and dadavis of a democrat,. no. i won t go to bles plessy versus ferguson but i will go to woodrow wilson, one of the great so-called leading progressive intellectuals in late 1800s and 1900s president of princeton university, governor of new jersey and elected president of united states, and he overturned every major pro-integration law that was put in place by the republicans who preceded him. recession gated the departments of federal government, fired black forward administrate hours, and openly sympathetic to the kkk . and he was critical of reconstruction. less than than 60 years ago, 1964 civil right act was opposed by 69% of senate democrats supported by 82% of senate republicans and opposed by 61% of house democrats and supported 8
Georgetown University Law center. He has served in all three branches of government and hes argued, remember, the mb cases before the United States Supreme Court. So he brings a really ni,diversa book. The court during this era. Cliff also has worked with the Washington Post company and. He has gosh, youve written extensively in t media about Court Related issues and and other issues sow id like to welcome cliff stone. Well thank you so much, bill thank you. And thâ– ank u all for here. And i just want to say it is an honor and a pleasure for me to here, d as bill was saying, the publication date is the first officialb special place to have it and its so ny days researching at the wonder library here with, the very helpful perso and so its just terrific to be here. And i really appreciate it. We, thatlets just launch righ. As i was saying before, i think e this roosevelttime aligned themselveo perfectly World War Two and the personalities involved here to give a perfect natural framew
They had very, very close personal relationships. And just to kind of briefly get the players on t table, they sort of into three justices were very well known, hugo black, felix frankfurter, William Douglas robert jackson. Those are the four very well known ones. O were not very well,murphy, james burns y from South Carolina and he was only on the court f fall of 1942, fdr to him come work with me in the white house. Youll be the assistant president overseeing the domestic economy and burns lef supreme to join fdr in the white and fourth justice in this category of lesser known justices in the fdr appointees was Wiley Rutledge replacement. And then the third group is the appointed by fdr and are only two in this category. One of them was harlan fiske stone, who hadn appointed in 1925 by calvin coolidge, his Amherst College buddy, and as i mentioned, fdr e justice in 1941. In the summer of 1941. And its very clear that fdr did single mindedly focused and preparing the country for war,
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We welcome everybody to todays hearing on a free press and protecting journalists. Ill remind everybody the guests in the chamber are guests and youre free to be here, but this is no audience participation in the hearing. This is a hearing and were going to conduct it accordingly. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. And that cannot be limited without being lost. Those words were true when Thomas Jefferson wrote them in 1786 and theyre still true today. First amendment guarantees freedom of the press and prohibits the government from making any law to that freedom. Just hugo black stated, the Founding Fathers gave the press the role. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. And the hale to the freedom of the press is the keystone upon which all