Timothy we are here on april 5th, 2007 with Elizabeth Holtzman with the Richard Nixon oral history program. We are taping this in new york city. Hello, liz. Thank you for joining us. Rep. Holtzman glad to do this. Timothy lets start, its the summer of 1972. You have toppled a Senior Leader of the Democratic Congressional leadership. Youre running for office. The watergate breakin takes place. Youre very busy running for office. Do you notice it at all . Rep. Holtzman just barely. Actually, the irony is that there was a breakin in had i own Campaign Headquarters roughly around that time and a really ugly incident and people actually got beat up and had to get taken to the hospital. So i was worried about my own campaign and worried about my own Campaign Workers and worried about the breakin at my Campaign Headquarters. So watergate was just a kind of far in the distance, thunder far in the distance. Timothy you get elected. Rep. Holtzman i won the primary. That was in brooklyn, the equi
Rep. Rodino there were those who were a little concerned that speaker albert, who had not made up his mind, but who realize that impeachment was in the offing, certainly was considering, thinking about it, and there were those who felt, my god, if it goes to congressman rodino, congressman rodino is one who has been working in the background, has never got out front, you know and then out there. I believe in building on a consensus and recognizing that that kind of leadership is going to have its effect. There were those who wanted to create an Ad Hoc Committee and have the speaker designate at that time the Ad Hoc Committee to conduct the inquiry. Speaker albert talked to me on a number of occasions. He had great confidence in me and he placed his confidence in me. And notwithstanding that fact, there were those who, even after i became the chairman who were intent on taking another course of action. I remember the attempt on the part of some to delay the confirmation of jerry ford to
Im Chilton Varner and serve as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I am pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been and norma slid generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale la
It was the domain of many great indian tribes. The sioux were one of these tribes. [native american singing] their existence on the plains depended on two animals, the horse and the buffalo. A with horses, they were able to pursue the buffalo, and from the buffalo they obtained their food, shelter, clothing, tools, weapons, and almost Everything Else that was needed for the tribes to survive and flourish. Each year of their past was recorded through a symbolic drawing and handed down as history from generation to generation. My name is lydia fire thunder bluebird. Im an oglala sioux. This is my great uncles winter count. In sioux it is called [speaking sioux language] he was the one from the tribe who would make drawings of something important that happened each year. Each one of these pictures stands for one year. We did not use numbers like today. Instead, each year had a symbol. One person would be in charge of keeping this record for each band among the sioux. Every year when the w
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