The idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support. Whether it was atheists or Civil Rights Activist or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. Second was the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. The idea that liberalism was protected individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, which is that if you are going to govern, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices. This becomes an increasingly fraught prospect for liberals. Lyndon b. Johnson, after 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, 1965 with the Voting Rights act, he has a sense that the Supreme Court will be significant. Unlike with kennedy, there are no openings on the court. Johnson essentially creates one. He first comes in 1965. It is a custom which dates back to the wilson administration. There was one jewish member on the court. The jewish
Circumstances. Throughout the world people have raised questions about the purposes of memorials to whose leaders supported or profited from slavery. Whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint with the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an in stone,titute set monuments, memories, and myths that explores memories and memorialization. We find that the spring has brought a new and urgent crises that requires attention and consideration. This year, more than any in recent memory, demand that and more. We explore some of these questions with you. I am pleased to welcome dr. Hilary clean dr. Hilary and mr. Levin. Both have written about how americans commemorate the civil war and reconstruction. Differingaring perspectives on civil war memorials. They have been active in recent debates. Dr. Green is an associate professor of history in the department of gender and race studies and the coprogram director of the Africanamerica
Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight. And were going to try to do that in a very summaried fashion today. Before i start though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used a when they first went to talky movies and they had a sound track, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sample. Let me go back. A quick sample of roosevelt taping. All right. You get a sample there. Let me give you a thats kind of an amazing when you think somebody today, when we have cell phones talking about the break through in that presidency of a walky talky that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson, his immediate predecessor. During the transition between the two presidencies, nixon and johnson met
Interview this morning. Plus House Democratic caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries, republican senator tom scott and analysis from our powerhouse round table. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Good morning. Welcome to this week. The campaign trail, coronavirus and calls for racial equality all converged last night in tulsa. The president was hoping to reboot his campaign, but while the hype was huge, he claimed 1 Million People asked for tickets, the crowd was modest. Lots of empty seats, a rarity for a trump rally. While there were some tense moments in tulsa, protests remained largely peaceful. In a speech that lasted nearly n, defhis the president slme handling of coronavirus saying he requested to slow down the testing to avoid finding more cases. He spoke at length about his slow walk down a ramp at west point. What the president did not do is mention juneteenth, the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 or george floyd amid a National O
Time. It is time to put an end to the laws because it fully embrace the righteous cause. It is time to replace the racist symbols of oppression and inequality, symbols that have dominated our landscape with symbols that represent and summon the best in all of us, in all of our people, ones that reflect the diverse, inclusive and equitable city we are today, and we continue to strive to be. It is time to heal, ladies and gentlemen. Richmond is no longer at the confederacy. [applause] is time to show our community how much love we have here. It is time we embrace our diversity. It is time we remove that hinder the dreams of black children in our community. Years sinceplus these monuments were erected, we have known better. Better during jim crow. We knew better during mass resistance. Long before the black mens of young like george floyd. We have two ben 10 makes pandemics in this country, covid19 and racism. One is six months old, the other 400 years old. As the events of the last month