I hope youre all enjoying yourselves this morning but we have a rather large crowd and thats why i am thrilled to introduce the next program at the library of congress. You may sit down. For the past year at the library of congress we have been celebrating changemakers and the favorite is ruth bader ginsburg. [cheers and applause] a hero at 4 00 a. M. This morning students from american university. [cheers and applause] camped out in front of this facility and they are here. Talking about graduation from Columbia Law School. And all of these things and now being called the fiance of jurisprudence. [laughter] and she said id rather you say the j law. [laughter] so, without further ado she is joined by her coauthors of the bestselling memoir and with georgetown law and Professor Emeritus at georgetown law. And the interviewer today and the person that you know very well from npr. [cheers and applause] are bg. [cheers and applause] please be seated. Before i leave this day i want to shake
Good morning [cheers and applause] im carla hayden, the librarian of congress, and i hope you all have been enjoying yourselves this morning. [cheers and applause] now, we have a rather large crowd this morning for this particular session. And thats why im very thrilled to introduce our next program. For the past year at the library of congress you may sit down. [laughter] because i have a few more things [laughter] for the past year at the library of congress, we have been celebrating change makers. And i can think of few people who more than aptly fit that description than the United States Supreme Court justice ruth ruth bader ginsburg. [cheers and applause] okay, im going to hurry up. She is [laughter] a hero and an inspiration to so many of us. In fact, at four a. M. This morning students from American University were right over there [cheers and applause] camped out in front of this facility, and they are here. She says and i said, justice, you know, im going to talk about your g
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c
A boarding house near the legislature building. And putnam came to him. Putnam was old enough to have been his father, came up to his room and said youve got to get up out of bed because were going to cast the vote today. And he said i cant. He said youve got to. So he did. Some people say he was carried in on a stretcher. I found no proof of that. In any event, he got to the legislature. He gave a powerful speech, and he voted. And the measure to introduce slavery into ohio and thus the whole Northwest Territory was defeated by one vote. [applause] and yet nobody has ever heard of his name. [applause] people have said to me, if you had put this in a novel, your editor would say no, this would never happen in real life. It did happen in real life. And we should know about that and know about him and hes the one who did more than anybody else to get education passed by the Legislature Later on providing School Public schooling public learning all the way through the university of ohio.