This is a really special evening for me because i am welcoming my dear old friend frank foer, editor of the new republic. Frank and i have known each other since 2000 when he first came to the new republic as a brilliant young writer from u. S. News. He established himself early on as the magazines most thoughtful and penetrating commentator and was tapped as editor in 2006. He briefly left and came back in 2012 where he has presided over a renaissance of this extraordinary magazine that i love so much and have been lucky enough to work at since 1991 when i joined them as my first job out of law school. I was hired as Legal Affairs editor by Andrew Sullivan who was the editor at a time. This was due to no great shakes on my part, but only because i had gone to college with andrew. I like to say on the Harriet Miers of legal journalism. Its pure nepotism but its the luckiest of my life because it launched this extraordinary career in journalism at this beautiful magazine and led to what
Future of the magazine. This is one hour 20 minutes of stop [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] journal cspan. Org welcome to the National Constitution center. Im jeffrey rosen. Im the president of this special constitution center. Lets recited together this is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. [applause] that is our inspiring congressional motto. Its a cult. It is a constitutional cult and its such a thrill to be here in this wonderful place. This is a really special evening for me because i am welcoming my dear old friend frank foer editor of the new republic. Frank and i have known each other since 2000 when he first came to the new republic as a brilliant young writer from u. S. News stop he established himself early on as the magazines most thoughtful and penetrating comm
Understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, sought a better relationship with the soviet union, and presented his doubts on the u. S. Involvement in the non. This is about one hour. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be back at politics and prose, one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, not just in washington, d. C. Id like to ask you, who here has seen the portrait of kennedy in the National Portrait gallery in the halls of kennedy . Thats great. You know its quite unlike any of the other portraits. It was painted by the estranged wife of the story behind how the portrait happened to be there i think is a kind of interesting one and, in fact, i opened my book with it. Id like to share it with you just briefly. She was supposed to paint one portrait for the Truman Library in independence, missouri, and she was chosen because everybody knew that john f. Kennedy was too restless to sit for portrait painter. So William Weldon thought lets get elaine it was not as the fastest brush in
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They are as great supporters of the programs we do at the Roosevelt Library and we appreciate very much. Dictate the format of the session for those of you who havent been to a reading before. Will introduce a speaker and she will talk for slitted minutes or so after which if time permits we will take questions. If not for the season would be happy to speak with the oneonone as she signs books at the new deal store, where after your wonderful discussion you want to flee the room so that you can buy one for her to sign. Susan dunn is the author of 1940 fdr, wilkie, lindbergh, hitler the election amid the storm. She is the parish the country professor of humanities at Williams College where shes been teaching since 1973. She graduated from Smith College and has a phd from harvard university. She is written and edited books that focus on two key periods in american history, the founding. And the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Don is also the officer of how fdr fight to change the democ