Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
Down a request to free former president lula from prison and a Prime Minister in t. Is ethiopians mourn the loss of military leaders killed during saturdays failed rebellion. Thank you for joining us jared has launched the United States to 50000000000. 00 for me now for peace between israelis and palestinians the u. S. President s son in law and Senior Advisor opened a conference in bahrain on Palestinian Economic Development part of a wider initiative to end decades of conflicts on a Senior Leaders still have already rejected the plan and are boycotting the gathering in a moment rob matheson will report from gaza where palestinians have gone on strike in protest against a meeting in bahrain wise in a harder has spoken to refugees living in lebanon whose message is palestine is not for sale and need abraham is in the occupied west bank where people say money alone wont solve their problems for jordan outlines what jared has announced. Shows Business Leaders and government officials are
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,
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